IRELAND certainly dominated Saturday’s five-star $300,000 1.60m Longines FEI Jumping World Cup of Ocala, with Irish riders claiming the first four placings in the class. It was Meath man Cian O’Connor’s day, as he took the coveted top spot on the podium on board the 14-year-old gelding Bentley de Sury with a double clear round in a jump-off time of 36.62 seconds. In a close contest, the runner-up position went to Cork’s Shane Sweetnam and James Kann Cruz (ISH) (36.81), with Derry’s Daniel Coyle in third on Incredible (36.84) and Tipperary’s Tom Wachman on Tabasco de Toxandria Z placing fourth. Darragh Kenny also claimed seventh place for the Irish riding Eddy Blue. There were 33 on the start list, just seven of whom jumped the first-round clear within the time to proceed to the jump-off (five of them being Irish), where six combinations repeated their clear round.

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