SIXTEEN years after she last won the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials, Britain’s Pippa Funnell found herself holding the coveted winner’s plate once again, this time thanks to the Irish-bred five-star first-timer MGH Grafton Street.

On the final board, a mere 0.1 of a penalty separated Funnell, the dressage leader, from her European Championship teammate Piggy French, riding Trevor Dickens’ quirky 14-year-old Irish Sport Horse mare Vanir Kamira (by the Belgian-bred stallion Camiro De Haar out of Fair Caledonian), winner of Badminton in the spring.