At Royal Windsor, the Irish were also very much to the fore as Dermott Lennon took the grand prix and Billy Twomey triumphed in the other major jump-off class.

Billy got the ball rolling on the Saturday as be brought out Joe Flynn’s Irish bred Ardcolum Duke to take the 1.50m Jump-Off. Then on Sunday afternoon former World Champion Dermott Lennon produced two superb rounds to win the £50,000 Alltech Grand Prix on Judith Sossick’s Limmerick mare Loughview Lou Lou. The Banbridge man was all of two seconds faster than Robert Whitaker in a four horse jump-off.