CARLOW’s Jason Foley landed victory in last Sunday’s two-star 1.45m Grand Prix to conclude the opening week of the Autumn MET II tour in Oliva Nova, Spain.

From a huge startlist of 67 combinations, 12 made it through to the jump-off, where Foley guided Sean Cubitt’s eight-year-old mare to victory when fastest of six clears in a time of 36.51 seconds. By Kannan, Rockwell RC was bred by Ronan Byrne out of the Guidam mare Urban Sea. The pair previously world a world title in Lanaken when she was five.