SCARVAGH stable jockey Connor McClory didn’t compete at the first two legs of the Baileys Horse Feeds Flexi Eventing league at The Meadows on Bestman Bryan but, last Saturday, clinched second place overall with Vina Buller’s home-bred gelding, who won the Treo Eile thoroughbred award.

McClory and the unraced Lauro five-year-old completed on 54 points, as did young Zara Reid with Greylands Diamond Girl but, as they picked up 15 points on Saturday, McClory and Bestman Bryan claimed the runner-up spot. Reid had been leading for three weeks with her father Gary’s 15-year-old British-bred mare but, as happened last year, she missed the final to go on a family skiing holiday.