IT has been a while since this writer contacted Cathal Daniels regarding an Eventing Ireland win so I was pleased to do so following his success with CDS Cairnview Romolu in the eight-runner EI115 (Open) at Rosanna on Saturday.

While lying third after dressage on 22.5 penalties, Daniels was still some way adrift of the flat stage winner, Clare Abbott, who was on 15.7 with Mr Mighty. Disappointingly, but not for the first time, that Gatcombe nine-year-old blotted his copybook in the show jumping ring – picking up eight penalties – and was then one of four horses (all entered at Millstreet this weekend) who were withdrawn before the cross-country phase.