Just over a second separated the finishing times of the top three riders in Saturday’s Monaco Grand Prix jump-off, but it was Ireland's Jessica Kuerten who proved the fastest, and took home the €100,000 prize.
The final competition at the weekend's five-star show in the
principality saw Kuerten and the 11-year-old bay mare, Castle Forbes Libertina, battle through two gruelling rounds of showjumping to qualify for the jump-off against five of the world's top riders, but the 37 year-old from Antrim held her nerve and came home ahead of Dutch runner-up Jeroen Dubbeldam.
Kuerten's last Grand Prix outing with Libertina was at Cannes earlier this month, where she was beaten to the prize by the Ukraine's Gregory Wathelet, but the mare produced an unbeatable poise and speed tonight to clinch the Grand Prix trophy.
