Going - Yielding - Changed to Soft after R3. Showery
Trifecta Not Won. Pool of 1,886.27 carried forward to Cork on Tuesday 1st October. Jackpot Pool - 366.05 Dividend - 256.20 Winning Units - .65. Partial Carry Over of 126.67 to Cork on Tuesday 1st October. Placepot Pool - 21,602.82 Dividend - 50.60 Winning Units - 298. Days Aggregate - 152,958.83 Last Year 145,279.87
Billie is Quick in Down Royal opener
McGettigan seen to good effect on Sevensees
State Of Joy for O'Brien in Down Royal
Future provides McNamara with further success
I was going to try and sit second or third today and he was a fraction slow away, so I had to just take my medicine a small bit and ride a waiting race. I was able to follow Dylan (Browne McMonagle) throughout the race, he took me into it well. I thought he won well within himself, I just had to make him work the last furlong just to get him there. He feels like he would get a mile and there is definitely more to come. He's probably a horse that will get further in time as well. We'll see what the story with him is. He might be out in a few weeks if we don't get him sold. He belongs to my sister so he was kind of bought to sell. We won't be overly anxious - we'll try and sell him if we can, but if not and we have to run him, it is not the end of the world.
Alex Belardo up and running in Down Royal
I suppose a lot of Belardo's like a bit of cut. I think we deserved it as much as he deserved it because he is a little bit tricky, but he put his best foot forward today. He put his head down when he needed to. Great to get the first win with him and I think there might be more with him next year. He's just a little bit of a baby and he's quite big and tall. Good to get the win this year and I think he is in during the week (at Bellewstown) and we'll see if he goes there. Look forward to him next year again. He ran well in Dundalk as a two-year-old, but we felt on his last run that he had had enough of it in terms of the surface. We always felt that the slow side of good would be better for him. We'll think about it, but he doesn't owe us anything now, so we might look after him.
O'Brien & Browne McMonagle complete Down Royal brace
Double for red hot McNamara as Londonofficecallin wins well