PHILIP McGuane and Orphea HQ were on form at the four-star Traverse City Horse Show at Williamsburg, Michigan over the weekend, when they finished as runners-up in Sunday’s $182,000 Grand Prix from a start list of 27. The pair jumped double clear in a jump-off time of 35.93 to take home a $36,400 prize; they were less than 0.3 seconds behind class winner Kaitlin Campbell (USA) on Castlefield Cornelious (35.67), who took home $60,060 for her efforts. Shane Sweetnam placed fourth with Coriaan Van Klapscheut Z (36.70) for $18,200.

Thursday saw Lorcan Gallagher ride Omar Van De Hunters into fifth place in the $2,000 1.40m class, while there were three Irish in the top six of the four-star $32,000 speed class, with Philip McGuane in third on Paso Doble SCF, Sweetnam on King of Diamonds Z in fifth and Jonathan Corrigan on Darius De Kerglenn in sixth.

Sweetnam finished as runner-up in the $63,000 Welcome Stake class at the four-star show at Williamsburg last Friday on board Coriaan van Klapscheut Z, when they jumped double clear in a fast time of 37.96 and were a mere 0.13 seconds off the pace of the winner, Kaitlin Campbell (USA) on Questa VD Heffinck (37.83). The Irish were well represented in the class, with Simon McCarthy on Leonardo S placing fourth (38.17) and Sweetnam also placing eighth, this time with King of Diamonds Z (4/37.31). Sweetnam also rode Cherry Blossom 5 into fourth place in Friday’s $7,500 1.35m class.

Mark Kinsella with Bogano were runners-up in Saturday’s four-star $32,000 Two-phase class, while on Sunday, Gallagher placed second and third in the $30,000 National Grand Prix with Omar Van De Hunters and Copycat respectively.