CO DOWN’s Conor Swail was the winner of the five-star $35,000 1.50m ATCO Founders Classic at the world famous Spruce Meadows Masters in Calgary, Canada last weekend.

Riding Vanessa Mannix’s nine-year-old gelding GK Coco Chanel (Clarimo x Lerano 2), he lodged the winning time of 38.31 by the tiniest of margins, from Canada’s Eric Lamaze and Chacco Kid (38.82), when second last to go. Swail had earlier taken a heavy fall at the last fence with his first horse, Flower.