DENIS Lynch made his attendance at Peelbergen Equestrian Centre in Kronenberg, The Netherlands worthwhile again at the weekend when winning the two-star Big Tour 1.45m Grand Prix qualifier on Thursday on board the 10-year-old stallion King Blue. Lynch had won the two-star Grand Prix at the venue the previous week with Cornets Iberio.

There were 85 participants on Thursday’s start list, 21 of whom jumped clear in round one and booked their place in the jump-off. Twelve of these combinations completed double clear rounds, with Lynch being the fastest of these, to take the win in a time of 38.78 seconds – more than a second ahead of Brazilian runner-up Marlon Modolo Zanotelli on Firefox Gem, who stopped the clock in 40.03.