P415 AERTEL 1 415 Wed 23 Feb 08:41:35 RTE 1/5 Allen takes another Florida triumph 21 Feb 2022 10:34 Wexford's Bertram Allen stormed to victory in Sunday s $140,000 (E123,000) IDA Development three-star Grand Prix at the Winter Equestrian Festival in Florida - the second year in a row that the Irish rider has won this competition. Riding his own 15-year-old gelding Harley VD Bisschop, Allen was among 15 combinations who jumped clear in the first round to make it into the jump- off. SPORT HEADLINES P200 Next GAA Soccer Rugby
P415 AERTEL 1 415 Wed 23 Feb 08:41:11 RTE 2/5 Allen takes another Florida triumph 21 Feb 2022 10:34 With the best position in the second round, Allen and Harley VD Bisschop were the final combination into the jump-off and the pair flew through the finish beam with a winning clear in 39.66 seconds - over a second ahead of British runner-up Ben Maher with Faltic HB "For some reason or other, I don t always get the nicest jump-offs on Harley," admitted Allen of the Belgian Warmblood by Dulf van den Bisschop x Coronado. SPORT HEADLINES P200 Next GAA Soccer Rugby
P415 AERTEL 1 415 Wed 23 Feb 08:41:17 RTE 3/5 Allen takes another Florida triumph 21 Feb 2022 10:34 "I was just going to have my round, and if it all came off, I knew he could be fast enough, but I wasn t going to force anything. And then right from the start, I caught one to two good, the double (combination) good, and just kept going from there." Harley has been in the family since November of 2018, having previously been ridden by Nicola Philippaerts. Allen explained: "My brother (Harry) rode him at one or two shows at the end of last year, and he s in Spain now with a lot of the other horses. SPORT HEADLINES P200 Next GAA Soccer Rugby
P415 AERTEL 1 415 Wed 23 Feb 08:41:23 RTE 4/5 Allen takes another Florida triumph 21 Feb 2022 10:34 "He came out here (to Wellington) the first week, so I thought it would be nice for him to ride him and see how it s done over here, because it s different in Europe. It was a good experience for him, and obviously it didn t do the horse any harm." Allen won this same Grand Prix at the 2021 WEF with the Irish Sport Horse Castlefield Vegas. For Harley VD Bisschop, that pre-qualification into the Grand Prix and the grass venue made it an "encouraging" decision to enter the horse. SPORT HEADLINES P200 Next GAA Soccer Rugby
P415 AERTEL 1 415 Wed 23 Feb 08:41:29 RTE 5/5 Swail second in Florida 13 Feb 2022 19:15 Conor Swail and Count Me In claimed an impressive runner-up finish in last night's $406,000 (E358,000) Fidelity Investments five-star Grand Prix on the fifth week of the Winter Equestrian Festival in Florida. World number nine Swail was one of eight combinations from seven different countries who jumped clear in the first round and he took the lead when second last to go in the jump-off, crossing the line clear in 41.42 seconds. Germany s Philipp Weishaupt was last to go with Coby 8, and he claimed victory with a perfectly-judged clear in 40.96. SPORT HEADLINES P200 Next GAA Soccer Rugby