THERE were plenty of Connemara crosses at Killossery Lodge Stud (2) last Saturday but none as imposing as Lewis Lowry’s home-bred Cecil Bready who won Section B of the EI110 on his third start under Co Wexford’s Patrick Whelan. The seven-year-old is out of the Cult Hero mare Odette.

With Lowry in attendance, the Templebready Fear Bui gelding was lying joint-sixth after dressage but completed on that Damien McCormick-award score (32.8) while those ahead of him after the first phase picked up jumping penalties. In the case of Commandant Terence White and Swatch This, who led after dressage (29.3), they fell coming out of the water at 17. Kilkeel’s Adam Haugh also had a frustrating day as, having filled the same position in Section A, he finished second on Carsonstown Cruise (33.8).

Daniel Alderson and Richard Ames are a force to be reckoned with when it comes to producing young horses and they claimed the first two places in the Irish Sport Horse eventing series EI110 class for six-year-olds.

The honours went to the Dinan Casceletto mare Belline Warrenstown Cruz (28.8), who was bred in Co Kilkenny by Sean O’Loughlin out of the Warrenstown You 2 mare Kereen Sue, with the Womanizer gelding Derena Super Star finishing second on 30.3. The rider/owner combination led after dressage with Ballyvillane OBOS (28.3) who picked up eight show jumping penalties and six for time on the final leg.

Winners earlier in the day, Amanda Goldsbury and Steven Smith finished second and third respectively on the ex-racehorse Murph’s Legend (29.3) and the newcomer MMF Churchill (30.3) in the ISH eventing series EI100 for five-year-olds. Here, the all-the-way winners were Camilla Speirs and BT Juste Capitaine (28.3), a Captain Canute gelding owned by the rider’s mother Bridget and Orla O’Neill. This was a second win in the series for BT Juste Capitaine who was bred in Co Kerry by Tim Hurley out of the Buster King mare Blennerville Edel.

The country’s young horse producers were out in force on Saturday with others to make a mark being Ian Cassells and Heidi Hamilton. The former finished first and second in Section A of the EI100 with Kyle McLaughlin’s Lisgarvan (1) winner Chinouk van de Heihoek Z (22 penalties), a five-year-old mare by Cavalo Z out of a Parco mare, and the former show jumper Halltown Glen (26.3), a nine-year-old Kannan gelding.