DERRY’S Daniel Coyle was a clear winner at the Major League Show Jumping fixture in Amenia, New York on Saturday, when he won the five-star $31,100 MLSJ Individual Round class with Calippo 57. The pair came out best of the 39 starters in the class, with the fastest of 19 clear rounds in 65.09 seconds - more than two seconds ahead of runner-up Erynn Ballard (CAN) on Genius De Rance (67.42). Shane Sweetnam and Pia Maria H placed sixth in 70.47, just ahead of Charlotte Jacobs (USA) on the 13-year-old Irish Sport Horse gelding Rincoola Milsean (Aldatus Z x Rincoola Abu by Cruising, bred by Harold McGahern, Co Longford) in 71.36.

Jacobs and her mount were on the winning Trelawny Trailblazers team in the $200,000 Clip My Horse/ Misson Foods MLSJ Team class, along with Alex Matz (Clarimo) and Marlon Modolo Zanotelli (Rockwell RC), while Sweetnam and Pia Maria H were part of the second-placed Roadrunners team, partnered by Kaitlin Campbell on Karius and McLain Ward on First Lady.