Condon Leads Irish Whitewash at Lisbon, Lynch and Allen Successful in Aachen
CORK’S Anthony Condon and the nine year-old bay stallion Aristio led an Irish whitewash of the big feature class at the three-star show in Lisbon, Portugal on Saturday night.
Condon won the jump-off competition and the 3,000 euro first prize, but four other Irish riders also featured in the top ten of the 54-strong field.
Close behind Condon in second place was Kilkenny’s Marion Hughes with the bay gelding Can Ya Makan, while Trevor Breen and Classic took fifth, all three on double clear rounds.
In seventh was Michael G. Duffy aboard Bocello, while Vincent Byrne and Hannibal v. Overis Z claimed ninth place.
Irish riders also did well in the following Six-Bar competition at Lisbon, with Michael G. Duffy partnering Wilton John VDL into third place, and Thomas O’Brien and Amaretto sharing fourth with Vincent Byrne and Mr Rockefeller. The class was won by Belgium’s Karline De Brabander and Bamako de Muze.
SECONDS FOR LYNCH AND ALLEN AT FIVE STAR AACHEN
IRELAND’S Denis Lynch took second place in the Winning Round competition at the big five-star show in Aachen, Germany on Saturday, pushing Thomas Straumann’s bay stallion All Star 5 across the line in a second round time of 46.75 seconds.
However, the Tipperary rider was just over a second off the pace of German winner David Will and the mare Mic Mac du Tillard, and had to settle for the runner-up prize of 10,000 euro, while Will took home 12,500 euro for his first place.
Earlier, 19 year-old Bertram Allen also took a second place in the Youngster Cup for seven and eight year-old horses, riding Ballywalter Farms’s stallion Cheese W Z. The Wexford teenager failed to catch Germany’s Christian Ahlmann and Casuality Z, who claimed the winner’s rosette with just a quarter of a second in hand.
However, Allen was once again in the ribbons in the later Jump and Drive competition, where he shared first place with Australia’s Boyd Exell for the 5,000 euro prize. Allen and Wild Thing L handled the riding stage, while the Australian took the driving section.
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