DENIS Lynch got into the prize money at the five-star show in Paris with a second place in the jump-off today (Sunday), while fellow Irish rider Jessica Kurten was just half a second behind.

Thirty-five year-old Lynch, riding Thomas Straumann's gelding 'Nabab's Son', could not equal the blistering time set by Sweden's Rolf-Goran Bengtsson and 'Quintero La Silla', who shaded the Tipperary man by just under two seconds in the six horse jump-off and collected the 9,000 euro first prize.

Lynch took 6,000 euro for his runner-up spot, while Kurten, riding Lady Georgina Forbes's French-bred mare 'Castle Forbes Myrtille Paulois', received 4,500 euro for her third place at the Grand Palais.

Neither Irish rider could produce a clear first round on the formidable track of the afternoon's 200,000 euro Grand Prix, however, with four faults apiece pushing them down to a tenth place for Kurten and an eleventh for Lynch.