McLain Ward of the United States put aside efforts to compensate for a broken collar bone and let his horse take charge on Sunday to win the Preis der Miele jumping competition on the final day of the World Equestrian Festival in Aachen, Germany.

Ward of Brewster, New York, said that Goldika, a 13-year-old Holsteiner mare owned by Double H Farm, had been trying to win all week at Aachen, “but I’ve been getting in her way,” Ward said. “Finally, today I was able to stay out of her way, so she could do what she wanted to do, win.”

Despite the broken right collar bone sustained a month ago, Ward cut short his convalescence to re-join the U.S. team which two days ago won the seventh Samsung Super League event. That victory vaulted the Americans to the top of the leader board with only one more competition, in Barcelona, Spain, on September 16th.

Kim Prince of Hume, Virginia, finished in ninth place on Couletto K James, a nine-year-old Hanoverian gelding owned by Katherine Miracle.

Ward and Goldika negotiated the 11-obstacle course in 37.29 seconds with no faults to take first prize of $6,100.

Ward’s U.S. teammate, Jeffery Welles of Ridgefield, Connecticut, came up short in his effort to win the final of the Sparkassen Youngsters Cup for seven and eight-year-old horses.

Welles and Sampras, an eight-year-old Holsteiner gelding owned by Abigail Wexner, had dominated the two qualifying classes, winning one and placing second. However, in the third and final phase the pair knocked down three rails to finish in 20th place.

Sampras and Welles finished tied with Rodrigo Pessoa of Brazil on Loriot for fifth place overall.

Official Results - Prize of MIELE & Cie. KG

Jumping Competition with one round and one winning round

1 - GOLDIKA – HOLST -McLain Ward (USA) Double H Farm (0) 37.29 Jump-Off
2 - CORINO – HOLST Bernardo Alves (BRA) (0) 37.99 Jump-Off
3 - KILLOSSERY – ISH -Shane Carey (IRL) (0) 38.08 Jump-Off
4 - KONNI – SANH -Mylene Diederichsmeier (GER) (0) 40.80 Jump-Off
5 - WHINNEY JACKSON – KWPN-Billy Twomey (IRL) (0) 40.98 Jump-Off
6 - L.B. TAMINA – BWP - Christina Liebherr (SUI) (0) 41.43 Jump-Off