Nineteen-year-old Bertram Allen ’very happy’ with World Cup bronze medal

A bronze medal at the World Cup final was plenty reason for nineteen-year-old show jumper Bertram Allen to declare himself "happy" last night.

The Wexford rider’s dream of becoming Ireland’s first winner of the title slipped away in the deciding grand prix at the Thomas & Mack Arena in Las Vegas, but Allen preferred to focus on the positive after three days of competition with the grey mare Molly Malone V. “I’m very happy.

It was a hard enough championship and, to come out in third, you’d have to be happy,” said the teenager, who pocketed 130,000 euro, overall.