HAVING won gold and silver in the six-year-old class, Belgium’s Lara de Liedekerke-Meier and Ireland’s Ian Cassells returned for the seven-year-old prize-giving ceremony but this time the pair had to settle for silver and bronze behind Britain’s Tom McEwen.

The Gloucestershire-based rider, who was third after dressage, claimed gold on the Irish Sport Horse gelding Brookfield Danny De Muze whose total of 29.6 including 0.4 for time across the country. Disappointingly for De Liedekerke-Meier, who led from Thursday’s opening session of dressage on Helios and was clear within the time across the country, the Hanoverian gelding just managed to get through the treble at seven but took out the following oxer for a three-phase score of 32.3.