It is a British female one, two, three, four at the end of the CCI*** at Blenheim Palace International Horse Trials, with the crowds turning out in their thousands to watch a spectacular competition. Lucy Wiegersma and Granntevka Prince kept their cool to win from the front and claim the title.

“It is very gratifying to win an event of this stature, especially on a fantastic young horse like Prince,” said Lucy, whose next stop will be the European Championships in Fontainebleau, France next week with Woodfalls Inigo Jones.

“Emily and Drivetime wouldn’t be the ones you want sitting right behind you going into the show jumping as they consistently jump well,” she added, who was delighted with how the nine-year-old went throughout the event.

Emily Baldwin and Drivetime remained in second place from start to finish. Eight time penalties on the cross country and a pole down in the show jumping hampered the chance of any rise up the leaderboard.

“I was disappointed to have a fence down as he is usually a very good jumper, but I was a bit slow to the parallel and he just had the back rail down,” said Emily, who won the CIC*** classes at both Belton and Hartpury earlier this year.

Izzy Taylor, from Aynho, made a meteoric rise after the dressage, moving from 31st to third place riding Mrs Lorna Schuster’s homebred mare, Briarlands Matilda. She was also presented with the Marlborough trophy for the highest placed rider who lives within 50 miles of Blenheim Palace.

Izzy added nothing to a dressage score of 53.9. The only other person to keep a clean sheet throughout the competition was Melanie Wilder who climbed from 33rd to sixth place during the course of the competition.

“Briarlands Matilda is a class horse. She’s brave but careful with it,” said Izzy of the nine-year-old mare, who was competing in only her second three day event – the horse was second at Hartpury CCI** last year.

Alex Hua Tian, 19, was the highest placed rider age 25 or under. He was awarded the £250 in vouchers from the Horse Trials Support Group. Alex was the only rider to represent China in the eventing at the Olympics in Beijing last year.

Claire Boumphrey received a top hat from Patey for climbing the most places after dressage. She moved up from 74th to eventual 27th place after adding just 10.4 cross country time penalties to her dressage mark.

For full results, see below.