IRISH course builder Alan Wade produced an intriguing test of horse and rider for Sunday’s seventh round of the Longines FEI World Cup Jumping competition at Olympia in London, with German riders filling the top two places at the finish, while Ireland’s Bertram Allen also featured in the final shake-up.

In the end it was Marco Kutscher who claimed victory in the H&M-sponsored class with the 11-year-old gelding Cornet’s Cristallo, who is by the stallion Cornet’s Obolensky that Kutcher himself rode with great success until the grey was retired in 2012. Kutscher and Cristallo were deceptively fast around the jump-off course and a time of 37.66 seconds would prove enough to grab the winner’s cheque of over €40,000.