“I KNEW I just had to give it everything I had,” said Wexford show jumper Bertram Allen after he crowned an exceptional week of results at the Winter Equestrian Festival in Florida with victory in Sunday’s three-star $137,000 IDA Development Grand Prix with Castlefield Vegas.

On just the second week of their partnership, Allen and the 11-year-old Cassino-sired Irish Sport Horse gelding began with victory in Friday’s $37,000 WEF Challenge Cup, the Grand Prix qualifier.