Oliver Townend Set to Cash in After Pushing Right Buttons on Carousel Quest at Burghley

Oliver Townend is just two competitions away from becoming eventing’s richest winner yet after victory at Burghley set him up for £300,000 worth of global awards.

Townend, 26, and foot-perfect Carousel Quest led throughout to win the Land Rover-backed event with 8.7 penalties in hand.

The dual Badminton-Burghley champion is poised to become the first £213,000 Rolex Grand Slam winner since Pippa Funnell in 2003 if he can score at Kentucky next spring. His Burghley victory also gives him a healthy lead in the £91,000 HSBC Classics, with only William Fox-Pitt armed to overhaul him at next month’s finale in Pau. Townend would add this to the £100,000 – the domestic sport’s largest prize – won with Flint Curtis in the “Express” event at Cardiff last November…

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Date: 9-06-2009
By: www.telegraph.co.uk