CO DOWN’s Conor Swail came within one round of winning the five-star the $406,000 Fidelity Investments Grand Prix at the Winter Equestrian Festival in Wellington, Florida, last Saturday night. In the end, he was pipped to the post by Germany’s Philipp Weishaupt at the end of the class.

Week five saw the first five-star take place and the crowds flocked to the Palm Beach International Equestrian Centre for ‘Saturday Night Lights’ at the venue. Some 40 of the world’s best show jumpers lined out to take on Kelvin Bywater’s big 1.60m track.