IRELAND’s Anna Merveldt continues to smash her preparation for next year’s Tokyo Olympic Games and secured two more top-drawer results in Italy last weekend.

Coming off the back of a third-place finish at the three-star World Cup show in Budapest, Merveldt and the 11-year-old Lusitano stallion Esporim, who is still relatively new to this level, travelled to Ornago in Italy where they secured two runner-up places.