Eighteen-year-old Cathal Daniels scored a notable second place in the main feature class at Camphire International Horse Trials in Co Waterford last Sunday.

Daniels, who has already been selected for the GAIN Horse Feeds young rider eventing squad that will compete for Ireland in the 2015 European Championships in Poland next month, finished on his dressage score of 49.00 after going clear in the show jumping and cross country phases. Riding Margaret Kinsella’s Irish Sport Horse (ISH) mare Rioghan Rua (Jack of Diamonds X Flagmount King), Daniels finished less than two penalty points off the score of Australia’s Christopher Burton and Nobilis 18.

Irish combinations accounted for seven of the top 10 places at Camphire’s three-star competition, with Austin O’Connor and Kilpatrick Knight (ISH)(TIH) finishing in third and Sarah Ennis with BLM Diamond Delux (ISH) in fourth. Fifth went to Sam Watson and Horseware Lukeswell (ISH)(TIH), while Austin O’Connor took seventh on Morning Venture (ISH) and eighth with Balham Houdini (ISH). Tenth went to Patricia Ryan and Tullineaskey Hi Ho (ISH).

Austin O’Connor was best of the Irish in the CCI2*, when sixth on 51.3 with Day by Day (ISH) with Christopher Burton again taking the winner’s trophy. The CIC2* was won by Ireland’s Clare Abbott and Glenkeeran River (ISH)(TIH).