THE Irish team of Shane Sweetnam, Paul O’Shea, Conor Swail and Cian O’Connor produced a fantastic display of show jumping last Friday night to win the CSIO**** $150,000 FEI Wellington Nations Cup for the second year in a row, and for the third time in history.

Just two weeks after scoring a decisive team victory in Ocala, Michael Blake’s team, with two new combinations from that Ocala win, finished the two-round competition on a total of four faults to land a convincing success ahead of America on 13 faults and Brazil in third with 16. Venezuela were fourth, Britain fifth and Canada sixth of eight teams that took part.