IRELAND’S Kevin Babington and his long-time partner Shorapur won last Friday’s $35,000 1.45m speed competition at the three-star Split Rock Jumping Tour’s Longines FEI World Cup show in Columbus, the second week of the Tour’s run at the Brave Horse Show Park in Johnstown, Ohio in the USA.

Shorapur, a 13-year-old Hanoverian mare owned by Shorapur LLC, is well known for her speed across the ground and over the fences, and she did not disappoint. The bay mare completed Alan Wade’s course clear in a time of 69.15 seconds, well ahead of the other 59 competitors who tried their luck in the class.