NO ONE can accuse Inga Le Prevost of a lack of Personality. It was her impressive mount of that name that carried her to a superb win in the senior open grand prix as the BSJA Guernsey show season began in excellent style.

The Le Prevost-Personality combination was the only one to produce a double clear in the grand prix to claim the Echo Beach Trophy ahead of Amelia Jeffery and Loftsome Moonlight, who also left every fence standing but accrued a solitary time fault.

However, the overall honour of leading senior rider at the Easter Show went to the senior novice grand prix winner Charlotte Breban riding Papillon III.

Victory in that class confirmed her place at the top of the riders’ standings for the two days thanks to some consistently top drawer performances.

However, she was pushed all the way in the novice grand prix with the margin of success being less than a second from the only other combination to go clear in the jump-off, Oasis Gold Star, ridden by Trevor Bourgaize.

The clock also decided the junior open grand prix.

Three combinations from the six starters made it through the first two rounds clear and all continued in that vein to leave the round three fences standing.

First to go riding Crystal Sword was Tiffany Gervaise-Brazier and they set the remaining two combinations a stiff target to beat of 39.10sec.

Jersey’s Katherine Moon found matching that time too much of an ask, despite a fine clear round on Tomadachi II, leaving Penny Freeman and Kilrea Boy as Gervaise-Brazier’s only challenger.

Their performance under pressure was awesome as they raced around the all-weather arena at Chemin Le Roi in just 34.89sec. to seal the class and a share of the leading junior rider prize.

Sarah Jackson was the other recipient after enjoying an excellent show in the 128cm classes on Whinfell Tom Kitten.

That category proved to be the most entertaining one for the spectators over the two days.

‘The best classes were the 128cm ones. They are just so competitive, they were brilliant and so close,’ said show secretary Sarah Mills.

‘In the first 12.2hh class they were all really going for it – it was definitely the best class of the show in terms of excitement.’

There was also a lot of promise shown by some new combinations, with Mills pointing to a couple in particular.

‘Laura Davison and Elmdale Expression had a very good show culminating in the junior novice grand prix, which they won, and also Sammy McNaught on Faberge, they placed in every class they entered,’ she said.