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Beezies Sue - Recent Successes

Dressage rider Simone Hession from Woodlands Equestrian Centre, Tubbercurry, Co. Sligo and her own horse, the RID mare Beezies Sue placed 5th in the Prix St George class, at the recent Northern Ireland Dressage Festival held at Cavan Equestrian Centre. Beezies Sue was the only Irish bred horse competing at the championships at this level.

This combination have just returned from a successful trip to England to compete on the British Dressage circuit. Competing at Advanced and Prix St. George level in England they competed at three shows. At Hunters Equestrian they won and placed 4th in their classes, the following day at Swallowfield Equestrian Centre the pair achieved 2nd and 5th placings. Travelling to Surrey for their final show of the trip at Pachesham Equestrian Centre again they won a class scoring 65.62% at Advanced and placed 3rd in the PSG class on a score of 63.15%. Also qualifying for the Hickstead Dressage Masters League. From their results they also gained their qualifying place at Advanced and Prix St George for the National Dressage Championships to be held at Cavan Equestrian centre in September. Earlier this year Simone and Beezies Sue were selected for the National Training Squad to train with International Dressage Trainer Ferdi Eilberg and they continue their training monthly, Beezies Sue being the only Irish bred horse of the 12 combinations selected to train.