BRITAIN’s Oliver Townend won the sixth five-star of his career last Sunday when, after a weekend of ups and downs, the 43-year-old guided the Irish Sport Horse Ballaghmor Class to victory in the Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event, to become just the second person ever to win the event three times in-a-row.

Only Germany’s Michael Jung has also managed to do so, all with the recently retired fischerRocana FST, while the 2020 event was cancelled due to Covid-19. The 2021 event was also in jeopardy and was actually cancelled earlier this year, before a crowd funding campaign got it back on the calendar.