IRELAND’S Peter Moloney emerged as the best of the 33 starters in the three-star Big Tour two-phase class last Thursday at Chard, when he completed the second round clear in 29.21 riding Lisa Volk’s 13-year-old gelding Nielson.

Moloney finished exactly half a second ahead of runners-up Mark Edwards and Tinkers Touch, in a class where 12 combinations produced double clears. Among them too for Ireland was Shane Breen, who finished 10th on the Patrick Connolly-bred Irish Sport Horse Csf Thomascourt Zena (VDI Zirocco Blue x Prince de Vaux) when they crossed the finish line in 34.97.