BELGIUM’s Gregory Wathelet won the first Rolex Grand Slam of Showjumping of the year when landing victory in the Aachen Grand Prix with Coree last Sunday at the famous German venue.

In front of a packed crowd of 40,000 people, the dramatic jump-off, which saw four of the world’s best riders, two men and two women, fight it out for the top prize of €330,000, Wathelet guided the 11-year-old Westfalen mare by Cornet Obolensky to the fastest clear round.