Darragh Kenny made the relatively short journey to Deauville from Paris, where he had been on standby for the Underwriting Exchange Irish Show Jumping team for the Olympic Games, and the US-based Offaly native delivered at the Classic Show with a four-star triumph Prix Herms Sellier early on and a runner-up finish in yesterdays Grand Prix. Both stellar efforts were in conjunction with Eddy Blue, a 12-year-old gelding owned by Carol Sollak. In the Grand Prix qualifier, they were 58th of a mammoth 81 competing combinations into the ring and their time of 64.07 seconds, while jumping clear over the 1.50m track, survived the remaining challenges. Given that there were 31 clear rounds in total in the speed class, those challenges were considerable but the time proved too hot for them all, with local hero Kevin Staut and Dialou Blue PS runner-up. Amazingly, the first and second horse were both []