ANDREW Bourns was runner-up in the first “Saturday Night Lights” event at Wellington International as the venue gears up for the 2023 Winter Equestrian Festival. Bourns guided the ISH gelding Sea Topblue to second place in the four-star $216,000 Holiday & Horses Grand Prix.

The class was won by a former horse of Bourns’ in Benny’s Legacy, ridden by the USA’s Adrienne Sternlicht. From 41 starters over Anthony D’Ambrosio’s track, just seven kept all the fences up to progress to the jump-off, including three Irish riders.