TIPPERARY’s Kevin Babington rode his multiple-winning top mare, Shorapur, to the only clean round to claim victory in the $75,000 Devoucoux Grand Prix of Lake Placid, New York, last Sunday to finish out the 47th annual Lake Placid Horse Show on a high note.

Thirty horses tried to master the 15-jump course designed by Germany’s Olaf Petersen Jr. and while several came close, none could until Babington, 22nd in the order, entered the ring on his talented 11-year-old Hanoverian mare.