The Irish seem to fare well in Belgium on the international showground at Knokke Hippiques 'Summer Circuit' with numerous wins this week. And this morning we were off to an Irisn win again with Darragh Kenny, who already won yesterdays Gold Tour, sweeping in for a second win within 24 hours. In the 1.45m accumulator test the Irish rider collected 65 points in 50.84 seconds with his Fixdesign Funke Van 'T Heike (v. Action-Breaker) and by doing so was the fastest to cross the finish with the maximum amount of points possible. Britains Tim Gredley finished in second with Irish Sports Horse Unex Omega Star (v. Quick Star) having a flawless round in 51.78 seconds. Titouan Schumacher, who already was succesfull in the young horse classes this week, came in third with his stallion Paradis Latin (v. Heartbreaker). For Brazil is was Joao Victor Castro who rode the Belgian bred Hilde (v. Kannan) to fourth place in front of home rider Zoe Conter who closed the top 5 with Irenice Horta (v. Vigo d'Arsouilles). Check out all the results on www.knokkehippique.com.
