Thirteen-year-old Emily Ward shows elders a clean pair of heels in Under-23 championship Ward was nearly half a second ahead of runner-up Abbie Squires, 21, with Vilka B, and 1½ seconds ahead of Joe Clayton, 22, on Mr Darcy; Clayton, a nephew of Michael Whitaker, is also a previous rider of Witch. Later, Cian O'Connor, the 2012 Olympic individual bronze medallist, won his second jump-off competition in three days, the Santa Stakes, with part-time partner Splendor, loaned to him temporarily by Egyptian pupil Ahmed Tolba as he is studying in Cairo. The Irishman will keep Splendor on tick-over for Sunday's Grand Prix. He is more likely to start Ulano, who is inexperienced at this five-star level, in today's British leg of the Rolex World Cup, the UK's most valuable indoor class with a prize fund of £100,000. Penelope Leprovost was second in the Santa Stakes for France and Luciana Diniz third for Portugal. Both went for careful clear-rounds after watching O'Connor leave no margin for error. Michael Whitaker (Viking) and Nick Skelton (Heracross) were fourth and fifth, the only two British riders in the jump-off.