GALWAY’s Jessica Burke finished her 2022 international campaign on a high at last week’s Stuttgart German Master when landing the first five-star victory of her career, in a year which saw her make her senior Nations Cup debut and land a hat-trick at the Horse of the Year Show.

The 30-year-old, who is based at Arion Stud in England, won Friday’s five-star 1.45m speed class at the venue aboard Inpulss, a nine-year-old mare owned by Louisa Church of Arion Stud. Germany’s Gerrit Nieberg was in the lead with Amigo 1841, setting the standard at 59.19 seconds.