Jos Lansink’s world-class Dutch team had to pull out all the stops to beat Australia for the Challenge Cup at the Longines FEI Jumping Nations Cup™ Final 2023 at the Real Club de Polo in Barcelona, Spain.

Carrying four faults apiece, it came down to a duel between the two sides in a second-round jump-off against the clock, and it was Willem Greve who clinched it for The Netherlands with a fast clear from Highway TN.

Copybook round

Dutch pathfinder, Jur Vrieling, put in a copybook round with Long John Silver 3 NOP but Kim Emmen and Inflame Go lowered the penultimate oxer on the 14-fence track and then Greve’s stallion put a foot in water, so there was a lot hanging on Maikel van der Vleuten’s anchor ride with Beauville Z NOP.

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