LOCALLY-based Cian McGee had the pleasure of partnering his own Carlton Gardens to win the Treo Eile thoroughbred class on his dressage score of 29 penalties at the Stepping Stones to Success League at Wexford Equestrian on Wednesday.

This was a great performance on the part of horse and rider as the British-bred gelding ran in an extended 10-furlong apprentice race on the all-weather at Dundalk in mid-October last year. He was then having the second of two outings for Tony Mullins having been previously trained by Gavin Cromwell and before that by Joseph O’Brien.