IRELAND’s Denis Lynch won the Golden Whip trophy with a Grand Prix victory at Norten-Hardenberg in Germany last Sunday, collecting the €15,000 winner’s prize.

Riding Thomas Straumann’s 15-year-old gelding Abbervail Van Het Dingeshof, the Tipperary rider outpaced Brazil’s Marlon Modolo Zanotelli and the 11-year-old Zerlin M by just under a second in the hotly-contested six horse jump-off.