LIMERICK’s Paul O’Shea scored a massive five-star win on Saturday at Spruce Meadows in Canada, when he partnered Imerald Van’t Voorhof to victory in the ATCO Queen Elizabeth II Cup, the first Irish winner of the big competition.

Some 31 combinations qualified for the two-round Grand Prix hoping to get a piece of the $500,000 purse, with the top 12 advancing to the second round, seven of them going forward with a clear round on the board.