WORLD number one ranked event rider, Oliver Townend has done it again! The British rider has won the CCI5*-L at the world-famous Defender Kentucky Three-Day Event in the USA for the fourth time, this time riding the Irish Sport Horse, Cooley Rosalent, a 10-year-old mare bred in Co Armagh by Woods Rosbotham. Remarkably, this was Townend’s 100th CCI5*-L competition!

Their dressage score of 31.4 had them in joint eighth position after the first phase, but jumping clear across the country, with just 0.4 time penalties moved them up to third. A foot-perfect show jumping round within the time allowed was enough for them to take the much-coveted top spot on the Kentucky podium! Cooley Rosalent is by Valent (KWPN) out of Bellaney Jewel (TB) by Roselier (TB).