Jessice Kurten kept up her batting average at the World Cup final in Gothenburg Sweden with a further two top ten places before tonight's first World Cup competition.
Kurten brought out Lady Georgina Forbes's bay mare Quibell to
take a fourth place in the 1m50 jump-off class, where a remarkably fast time in the second round by the Irish rider also drew four faults with a single pole down.
In the 1m45 competition against the clock, 38 year-old Kurten brought another mare, the eight year-old Castle Forbes Cosma into fifth place, nearly four seconds off the pace of German winner Heinrich Hermann Engemann, but still well within the prize money.
Kurten starts her World Cup Final campaign in earnest with tonight's speed class with Castle Forbes Libertina, going on to compete in Friday's jump-off and then Sunday's final competition, and will hope to accumulate enough points from all three to win the World Cup for Ireland for the first time.
