Bernardo Alves on Bridgit won the Grand Prix of Monaco

After their success this morning there was no stopping the Brazilian riders as Bernardo Alves won the Grand Prix of Monaco on Bridgit.

He won after a six horse jump off which included Meredith Michaels Beerbaum (4th) on Shutterfly, Jos Lansink on Valentina Van T’Heike (3rd) and Jessica Kurten (2nd) on Castle Forbes Libertina. After recieving his prize from Princess Caroline of Monaco and her daughter Charlotte Casiraghi, Bernado said Bridgit is the best he has ever ridden.

Brazilian's Salsa to Win.it was a Brazilian 1-2 in the warm up class for today's Grand Prix of Monaco in Monte Carlo.

With 12 through to the jump off the winner was always going to have to hustle to take the red ribbon and there would not be many men more capable than Rodrigo Pessoa of doing just that. Edwina Alexander collected her thrid placing out of three rides on Watch Me de Reve Bovenhoekshof at this show when she set a standard of 37.74 which was good enough for eventual fourth but Alvaro De Miranda Neto with his super speed horse AD Norson took two seconds off her time. 35.3 looked unbeatable until Rodrigo, next to go, made a turn into the fourth that almost defied the laws of physics and clipped nearly another second off.

The remaining riders then had to chase his time of 34.79. Billy Twomey was best of the rest in 36.52 which although not enough to win, netted the Irishman his second third prize of the week with Tackeray. Not a bad result considering Billy has only had the horse ten days!