CORK’s Shane Sweetnam ended a good week at the two-star American Gold Cup show in Traverse City, Michigan, last weekend when finishing runner-up in the $75,000 Grand Prix behind USA’s Kent Farrington.

From a star-studded startlist of 66 combinations, 11 made it through to the jump-off over a track designed by Nick Granat. Third to go against the clock, Farrington rode his five-star winner Creedance to a lightning fast round to break the beams in 34.88 seconds.