With start number 2, Piergiorgio Bucci believed for a long time that he had already won the race after his round. The Italian, who completed a fast clear round with his 13-year-old gelding Hantano, waited patiently and watched as his competitors tried in vain to beat his sensational time of 68 seconds and 48 hundredths of a second. Some managed to do so, but were penalised with four penalty points for faults either at obstacle no. 7, the double jump or the last obstacle. Others came very close to the result, such as Gilles Thomas and Cian O'Connor, but they were still a few hundredths of a second away from first place. 

However, Jessica Mendoza, who was already in top form at the start of the weekend, had not yet had her final say. The 29-year-old Briton, who had already won the opening class on Thursday and scored four points in the difficult Trophée de Genève yesterday evening with the same horse, In The Air, shone again this afternoon, beating Piergiorgio Bucci by almost seven tenths of a second.