Lennon earns big slice of the cake at Olympia

IRELAND’S Dermott Lennon scored his first success at the Olympia International Showjumping Championships yesterday, taking the Christmas Cake Accumulator.

Aboard the 10-year-old Irish draught gelding Ginger Watt, the World Champion picked up the maximum points in a time of 50.43 seconds for his first victory at London’s annual festive extravaganza.

In doing so, he denied Robert Smith (Kalusha) a hat-trick by a mere 0.16 of a second, the Briton having won Saturday’s World Cup qualifier and pre-qualifier on Friday.