WEXFORD’s Bertram Allen added to remarkable weekend for Irish show jumping, with a fifth place finish in the lucrative Longines Masters of Hong Kong Grand Prix in Chinathis morning (Sunday).

Allen guided the nine-year-old greystallion Hector Van d'Abdijhoeve to a hugely impressive double clear round, in one of the world’s richest competitions, with half a million Euro on offer.

The Noel Delahunty and Connaught Bloodstock-owned Hector Van d'Abdijhoeve was one of the youngest horses in the competition, having been produced in Ireland by Galway’s Thomas O’Brien, before world number nine Allen took up the reins last year.

Victory and the€150,000 winner’s prize went to German ace Marco Kutscher with Van Gogh. Twenty-year-old Allen won two major classes at the five-star Hong Kong event with the gelding Quiet Easy and returns to Europe with almost €100,000 in prize money.

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Allen’s exploits in Hong Kong come on a weekend when Offaly’s Darragh Kenny won a three-star Grand Prix at the Winter Equestrian Festival in Florida with the Oakland Ventures & Sergio Alvarez Moya-owned Red Star D'Argent.

Waterford’s Anthony Condon also finished ninth in the Longines Grand Prix at Al Ain in the United Arab Emirates with the John Hales-owned stallion Aristio, having earlier jumped a double clear round in the Nations Cup.