Awesome Austin vaults into medal contention

Awesome Austin O’Connor delivered a foot-perfect clear cross country round within the time on board Colorado Blue to lie 14th individually in Eventing. O’Connor and his dashing grey came home one second under the limit to remain on his dressage score of 31.7. Unfortunately however, an injury to Sarah Ennis’ Irish Sport Horse Acton Lady M, picked up in the course of a brilliant round that saw the Howth pilot pick up just 3.2 penalties, have put a major dent in hopes of a medal for Dag Albert’s squad. First alternate, Aoife Clark will step into the breach on Sportsfield Freelance in tomorrow show jumping but with 20 penalty points added to Ireland’s tally, Ireland are now in ninth overall. That represented a climb of two places for the squad, while O’Connor vaulted 14 places from the 28th position he inhabited after the dressage. “It’s obviously very disappointing, especially for […]