Duffy and Cantano Z sharp in Shanghai again

Up-and-coming partnership so close to huge win but record brilliant podium finish Michael Duffy is one of the hottest riders on the Longines Global Champions Tour right now and Cantano 32 one of the in-form horses, as the pair followed up yesterday’s runner-up finish in the second of Shanghai’s Longines Global Champions League five-star classes with another brilliant podium finish, this time in third, in the €600,000 LGCT Grand Prix of Shanghai. A winner of the LGCT Grand Prix at Miami Beach on Claptonn Mouche, Turloughmore native Duffy was effusive in his praise of the ten-year-old Cantano yesterday and his assertion that the progressive bay was a star of the future earned further credence by jumping one of only seven clear rounds in an arena with 16 jumping efforts. Fourth into the ring in the jump-off, they actually bettered the time of winner Gilles Thomas (BEL) and Luna van het […]