IT’S impossible to beat winning in front of one’s home crowd and owner/trainer/rider Niamh Hennessy did precisely that at Sunday’s well-attended Kilworth and Araglen Harriers meeting at Knockanohill, by steering Lakewood Rose to victory in the five-year-old and upwards adjacent hunts maiden.

Hennessy, who works at Brendan Holland’s nearby Grove Stud outside Fermoy, held up Lakewood Rose (4/1 - 6/1) off the pace, as Don’t Stop D Party and Getting There vied for supremacy up front.