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).