CORK’s Billy Twomey finished runner-up in the $213,300 Longines Grand Prix at the five-star Nations Cup show in Deeridge, Florida, when, for the second week in-a-row, USA’s McLain Ward and Noche de Ronda topped the podium.

Ireland’s Alan Wade designed a big 1.60m technical track for the starting 45 and nine kept a clean sheet in the first round to progress to the jump-off. Second into the arena, Twomey, who is spending part of the winter in Florida for the first time, set the standard with Kim Barzilay’s talented 11-year-old gelding Kimba Flamenco.