Thursday's feature class in Basel was the CSI5* 1.50m Prize of Grand Hotel Les Trois Rois against the clock, and it went to Julien Epaillard (FRA) and Queeletta (Quality x Landor S). With a time of 59.57 seconds, the French rider had 0.20 seconds down to runner-up Daniel Deusser (GER) on Kiana van het Herdershof (Toulon x Lys De Darmen). Home hero and world no. one Martin Fuchs followed in third with Chica B Z (Canturano x Berlin) after stopping the clock at 60.61 seconds.
Fourth place went to Denis Lynch (IRL) on GC Chopin's Bushi (Contendro II x Nairobi) and fifth to Douglas Lindelöw on Cheldon (Chacco-Blue x Baloubet du Rouet).
Emanuele Gaudiano (ITA) went out on top in the CSI5* 1.45m BMW X7 Springen with Carlotta (Chaccomo x Cento), 0.70 seconds ahead of Bryan Balsiger (SUI) with Jenkins ter Doorn (Numero Uno x Sir Lui). Christian Ahlmann (GER) followed in third with Atomic Z (Cumano x Chin Chin).