FBETTINA Hoy made history as the first German rider to win the CCI3* event the at Blenheim Palace International Horse Trials.

Hoy secured a pillar-to-post victory, completing her succcess in style with a clear show jumping round on Seigneur Medicott.

She finished more than ten penalty points ahead of New Zealand rider Andrew Nicholson, who took the runners-up spot on his father-in-law Philip Channer’s Tesio.

Hoy, 53, has had a long and distinguished career, but this was her first CCI3* win for around a decade and she was thrilled.

“It’s amazing – it’s such a long time since I won anything big and to do it here at Blenheim is very special,” she said.

British rider Willa Newton scored one of the biggest wins of her career when capturing the CIC3* category for eight and nine-year-old horses.

The 26-year-old and her horse Caja 20, rose from sixth place after the dressage to third with a clear showjumping round and then posted one of the fastest cross-country rounds of the competition.

It was a British one-two as Laura Collett finished second on her 2015 Le Lion d’Angers winner Mr Bass, one of only three to complete David Evans’s excellent track without time penalties.