Scott Brash will head into this week's London International Horse Show at Olympia with another major title added to his portfolio.
The world number one showjumper, from Peebles, was last month crowned overall Global Champions Tour winner for a second successive year.
And he has continued a blistering run of form by landing the Rolex Grand Prix, headline class of the prestigious Geneva Show in Switzerland.
Brash, riding his London 2012 Great Britain team gold medal-winning horse Hello Sanctos, edged out reigning European individual champion Roger-Yves Bost to land a winner's purse of £196,000.
Brash and Sanctos had earlier won Geneva's Rolex Top 10 Final, netting an additional £72,000.
"He really is amazing," Brash said, of the 12-year-old gelding.
"He is always on form and he is just an incredible horse.
"He is absolutely a once-in-a-lifetime horse, and I am so fortunate to have him and have the support of my owners and everyone around me."
Brash's Geneva triumph means he is now course to land the Rolex Grand Slam, which offers a bonus of just under £800,000 for any rider than wins successive grands prix at Geneva, then Aachen and Spruce Meadows in Canada.
"I will now make it an aim to target the Grand Slam," he added.
"It would be very hard to win two, let alone three, but I will definitely give it a try."
Brash's focus will now turn to London, with showjumping starting on Thursday and being highlighted by next Sunday's Longines World Cup class.
He heads a stellar line-up that also includes German stars Ludger Beerbaum, Marcus Ehning and Daniel Deusser, Dutch world team gold medallists Maikel van der Vleuten and Jur Vrieling, plus Brash's fellow British contenders like Ben Maher, Michael Whitaker, John Whitaker and Laura Renwick.
British dressage star Charlotte Dujardin will take centre-stage on Tuesday and Wednesday, though, when she competes in the Reem Acra FEI World Cup grand prix and freestyle to music classes.
Dujardin, fresh from her fourth-place finish in the BBC Sports Personality of the Year, will ride her reigning Olympic, world and European champion Valegro. They won the grand prix and freestyle at Olympia last year, setting a new freestyle world record in the process.
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