Jessica Kurten has won on 'Miribel D'Auvray' in the Wegelin Challenge speed competition this evening.

Jessica Kurten gave Ireland a top class result to end the year when she took second place in Belgium's World Cup Qualifier class at Mechelen this evening.

Just over a seventh of a second clinched the German Masters Qualifier at Stuttgart for Irish rider Jessica Kurten tonight when she beat France's Eugenie Angot into second place.

Jessica Kurten was in the prize money at Kiel, Germany last night with a noteworthy third place in the Grand Prix Qualifier.

SHOW JUMPER Jessica Kurten pocketed the biggest cheque of her career on Saturday when earning €300,000 as winner of the Global Champions Tour final in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Jessica Kurten took the runner-up spot in today's 1m 45 jump-off class at the three-star show in Den Haag, the Netherlands, this afternoon with Lady Georgina Forbes's eight year-old bay mare 'Myrtille Paulois'.

Jessica Kurten made her visit to the Fáilte Ireland Dublin Horse Show more than worthwhile today when she scooped the €42,000 first prize in the Longines Grand Prix with Lady Georgina Forbes's mare Castle Forbes Libertina.

Jessica Kurten failed to break the 30-year jinx that has denied Irish riders a World Cup win, when finishing equal fourth after today's final competition at Gothenburg, Sweden, but an American-owned Irish-bred horse did claim the runner-up spot.

Jessica Kurten narrowly missed racking up her third major consecutive victory at Gothenburg today when she placed second in the Speed Final with Lady Georgina Forbes's eight year-old mare Castle Forbes Cosma, behind Norway's Tony André Hansen.

A victory in this evening's (Saturday) Gothenburg Trophy gave Ireland's Jessica Kurten her second major win in 24 hours at the Swedish World Cup show.

Jessica Kurten upped her status as favourite to capture the 2008 World Cup in Gothenburg, Sweden, when she streaked home to win tonight's second competition in the weekend series.

Ireland’s show jumping team manager Robert Splaine is not expecting an easy ride today when his charges line out in the Swedish Nations Cup in Falsterbo.

IRELAND'S Jessica Kurten stepped up a gear tonight when taking a third place in the big 1m50 competition at Monte Carlo with Lady Georgina Forbes's 'Castle Forbes Libertina'.

JESSICA KÜRTEN sat down to dinner last night in Kuala Lumpur and reflected on a superb performance that saw her place fourth in the first round of the World Cup.

JESSICA KÜRTEN emerged this week as the number two ranked show jumper in the world. No mean feat, it came as little surprise following her string of wins against the sport’s elite, including victory in the Dubai Grand Prix, the world’s richest show jumping contest.

SHOW JUMPER Jessica Kürten notched up a hat-trick of wins at Leipzig over the weekend, but failed to make a major impression in yesterday’s World Cup Qualifier.

SHOW JUMPER Jessica Kürten partied in the Dubai Desert last night after winning show jumping’s richest prize.

JESSICA KÜRTEN’S World Cup ambitions have taken a setback following a fall prior to Christmas.

A MEETING between Show Jumping Association of Ireland (SJAI) chairman Charles Hanley and Equestrian Federation of Ireland (EFI) president Charles Powell aimed at smoothing relations between the two bodies failed to materialise yesterday, following the leaking this week of a letter written by the SJAI interim chief executive Liz Pottie.