Ireland’s Jessica Kurten took a fourth place in the last, and biggest, class of the day at the three-star show in Arezzo, Italy, on Lady Georgina Forbes's Castle Forbes Cadeau Z.
The Antrim-born rider, currently ranked sixth in the world, was one of 21 riders through to the second round of the 1m50 two-phase competition and steered the ten-year-old mare across the line just over a second off the pace of Italian winner Juan Carlos Garcia and Hamilton de Perhet in a tightly-fought finish.
A total of five Irish riders are competing at Arezzo this weekend, at both one and three-star level, and the Grand Prix takes place on Sunday.
SHOW JUMPING RESULTS: CSI3* AREZZO TOSCANA TOUR ITALY MARCH 13 – 29 2009
International Jumping Competition
Article Art. 274.5.3
Competition in Two Phases 1m50
Friday, March 13, 2009
1) Hamilton de Perhet; Juan Carlos Garcia (ITA) Faults 0.00/0.00 Time
29.74
2) GZS Cappucino Z; Alexandros Fourlis (GRE) Faults 0.00/0.00 Time 29.79
3) Da Zara Porto Rico; Piergiorgio Bucci (ITA) Faults 0.00/0.00 Time
30.11
4) Castle Forbes Cadeau Z; Jessica Kurten (IRL) Faults 0.00/0.00 Time
31.04
48 starters
