SATURDAY was a good day for the Irish in The Netherlands, as Denis Lynch rode the 13-year-old stallion Cornets Iberio, owned by himself and Sebastien Schatzmann, to win the two-star 1.45m Grand Prix at Kronenberg. From a start list of 62, 11 jumped clear to get into the jump-off.

All but four combinations faulted second time out, with Lynch and his mount jumping the fastest of the double clears (40.65) to claim the top spot. Italian riders took the other two podium places, with Piergiorgio Bucci on Private Dancer Van’T Meulenhof in second (40.86) and Giampiero Garofalo on Erenbee du Chafalet in third (43.46).