THE French crowd were naturally delighted to see Maxime Livio lift the winner’s spoils with his first CCI**** victory at Pau with the 12-year-old Selle Francais Qalao Des Mers, but the Irish riders had everyone talking with a clean blitz over the cross-country, while Kildare’s Camilla Speirs took sixth overall with the ever-brave Portersize Just A Jiff (ISH)(TIH).

Irish event riders enjoyed a great outing at the French venue where Speirs and her Rio Olympic partner Portersize Just A Jiff (ISH)(TIH) rose from 32nd after dressage to sixth with a double clear round in the cross-country and the show jumping.