Piggy March was victorious in the five-year-old Dubarry Burghley Young Event Horse results aboard the horse with whom she won the four-year-old final last year, Quantum Leap. The class – held at Defender Burghley Horse Trials – features a dressage, showjumping and shortened cross-country round, before horses are judged on conformation.

The top 10 at that stage are pulled forward for a go-round in all paces and a final gallop, judged this year by William Fox-Pitt .

Quantum Leap – owned by Ann Tolhurst, the March Stud and long-term supporter of Piggy, Lady Aldous – led after the first three elements of this class and was then given the third best gallop score to finish on 86.85 points. British-based Irish rider Susie Berry was third prior to the final gallop with Purple Rain,

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