Five-star Canada victory for Darragh Kenny

Offaly's Darragh Kenny enjoyed victory at the Canadian Utilities Cup at Spruce Meadows, Alberta, yesterday, during the five-star Continental presented by Rolex event.

The Offaly man got his head in front today (Sunday) in the Canadian Utilities Cup and astonishingly, it was all about the green, white and gold once more with Jordan Coyle and For Gold narrowly denied by 0.21 seconds, and Swail and One Edition settling on this occasion for third.

Grant set a gruelling course for the 1.45m/1.50m class with 18 jumping efforts covering 600m of turf. It was all change in the closing stages as Swail took the lead with his ten-year-old mare as the 28th of 32 into the All Canada Ring.

That lasted around two minutes, before Coyle and For Gold stopped the clock on 96.50 seconds. But he had barely dismounted when the world-ranked No 18 from Offaly and his mount Lightning set what proved to be the unbeatable standard, with the two subsequent pairings failing to break the Irish stranglehold on the podium.

Earlier in the same meeting Kenny registered two second places and a third place finish.