CONGRATULATIONS to Mark McCrory from Maghery, Co Armagh who recorded his first track success at Down Royal’s Bank Holiday Monday meeting on board the Maria Richert-trained El Grande in the BoyleSports Hunters Chase.

The nine-year-old Almutawakel gelding ran in the colours of Tilly Conway whose husband Pat bred the bay out of the Teenoso mare Teen Ballet. El Grande is the third of just five foals out of his unraced dam who, in turn, was one of only two foals out of the Shareef Dancer mare Mountain Ballet. This is the family of Nashwan and Height Of Fashion.