Irish show jumper Jessica Burke has to part with World Cup finalist Good Star du Bary

Jessica Burke herself reports this on her social media pages. She wishes the little Selle Français gelding with the lion’s courage luck in his new home, but without saying where it will be. As GRAND PRIX reports, Good Star du Bary is going to Eve Jobs.

It was only in February that Good Star du Bary had helped his rider to her first victory in a five-star World Cup show jumping competition in Bordeaux, securing her a starting place at the World Cup Final in Texas – also a first for both of them, which they finished in 24th place. It was the pair’s last show.

Good Star du Bary is a ten-year-old Selle Français gelding by Rock’n Roll Semilly-Oberon du Moulin. Burke got the gray horse under the saddle at the age of seven and built him up. In the same year, the pair finished 14th at the World Championships for young show jumpers, which is often a direct launch pad into the big sport, especially for seven-year-olds, as horses such as Clooney, Gazelle and many others have shown.

“Thank you for forever being a favorite horse, not just for me, but for everyone who had anything to do with you,” writes Jessica Burke. “Some horses are just that little bit more special and you are definitely one of them. (…) From traveling all over Europe, to the incredible evening in Bordeaux, to the Saut Hermès (where they finished second in one of the main competitions, ed.), to the World Cup Final in Texas, the past six months have been nothing short of the stuff dreams are made of.”