Orla and Sharon O’Donnell both competed at the inaugural EquiFestival in Cavan at the weekend. It sounds like things went well for Orla, as she tells here:
Well we went and we survived! It was lovely to spend enough time on home soil for Molly to regain her Cavan accent! We travelled down on Friday, hit the show ring on Saturday and managed 4th in the Small Riding Horse and 5th in the Small Hunter — the minature horses in the next ring had the poor mare all agog and the gallop was interesting to say the least. If there’s ever a riding club battle charge, we are sorted! Sunday was dressage and jumping with lots of riding club faces spotted up at the jumping ring. Sharon O’Donnell and Jim Campbell both got on well and Benbulben’s team for the RDS looked to be in flying form. The last class of the day was the dressage to music which ran more than two hours over schedule. We scraped a third place in the prelim dressage to music so there was a little bit of delph to sit on the dash on the way home – always a plus for the long journeys.
Well done, Orla. Three placings out of three entries is a pretty impressive record.
Pictured below: Orla showing Molly in the Small Hunters at the Riding Clubs Festival, Stradbally, 2008.
Letterkenny Riding Club 