London, England – December 18, 2019 – Darragh Kenny (IRL) and Important de Muze won the €27,000 Santa Stakes CSI 5* yesterday at Olympia – The London International Horse Show CSI 5*.

The Irishman and the 11-year-old bay Belgian Warmblood gelding (Erco van’T Roosakker x Nabab de Reve) earned the victory by clearing all the 1.55m obstacles they faced in their two performances, registering no penalties and a jump-off time of 33.70 seconds during the tiebreaker.

Second place was claimed by William Whitaker (GBR) and RMF Echo (Virus de Laubry x Feo), the only difference being their jump-off time of 34.45 seconds.

Ben Maher (GBR) and F One USA (Toulon x Tangelo van de Zuuthoeve) rounded out the top three, finishing only three-hundredths of a second slower than the previous combination.

Winner’s Circle – Darragh Kenny (IRL)

Speaking after the class, Kenny said: “It’s such a great show here, I really like coming here every year, the crowd are always amazing and to start off with a win is really nice. I didn’t get to see William’s round but I know my horse is quite careful and just went as fast as I could, which proved good enough today.”

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