An excellent clear round from Thomas Straumann’s 14-year-old gelding Abbervail van het Dingeshof put into the saw Lynch join 11 others in the jump-off.

For a while it looked as though the Tipperary rider would win, holding the lead in a time of 36.74 seconds for most of the jump-off. However the penultimate combination, Germany’s Philipp Weishaupt and the stallion Tabea, managed to better his time by just over a second to take victory and a Volkswagen 4x4 home.