Kürten and Twomey dominate in Barcelona

SHOW jumpers Jessica Kürten and Billy Twomey continued their dominance of the four-star show in Barcelona, Spain, at the weekend, claiming a one-two, respectively, in Saturday’s grand prix, while the Cork man also ended his show with a hat-trick.

The Irish pair were among 11 into the jump-off of the grand prix, but it was Antrim rider Kürten on the nine-year-old Castle Forbes Cosma who won the €30,000 car, relegating Twomey to runner-up on Sue Davies’s Tinka’s Serenade.

Kürten came close to making it a double later with Castle Forbes Myrtille Paulois, but she was beaten to the top spot in the Queen’s Cup by Austrian Thomas Fruhmann and The Sixth Sense.