Going - Yielding. Overcast
Jackpot Pool - 5,043.03 Not Won. Carried forward to Galway on Tuesday 8th September. Placepot Pool - 46,225.74 Dividend - 122.20 Winning Units - 264.59. Pick Six Pool - 4,487.00 Not Won. Carried forward to Galway on Tuesday 8th September. Days Aggregate - 241,557.00 Last Year 185,417.00
Ebediyin makes very pleasing start
He's a lovely colt in the making but he was very idle and lazy at home,. He's a beautifully bred horse with great stamina. If I run him again this year it will probably be in the Eyrefield on the last day of the season at Leopardstown, over a mile and a furlong - he stays real well. He's a horse to look forward to for next year and he'll be a mile and a half horse. His half-brothers and sisters have been pretty illustrious so hopefully he will live up to the page. It wasn't a surprise to me that he won. I got the feeling at home that the first day he sees a racecourse and gets a crack, that he'll take off, and that's what he did.
Johann on the improve
He's improved from his last run. We didn't go too hard on him after his last race as it took a bit out of him,. The draw (stall two) was key today. The ground was on the easy side of good so we were hopeful. He is entered in the Northfields at the Curragh. I just put him in it as I've always thought a lot of him from day one.
Weld/Smullen/Aga Khan make it 2 at Galway
Argue puts best foot forward
181/1 Galway treble for Weld
They are two very nice fillies and they battled it out very well,. The winner ran a super race in Cork, when she was a close fourth to her stable companion, Zannda, in a Group race, and I didn't think there would be much between them today. The second filly is still very immature and she will also make into a lovely filly as the year progresses. Experience won, it's as simple as that. There was very little between them working the other morning, and they ran pretty much to the way they worked. Maybe the second filly worked a shade better the other morning and so Pat went for her. The winner will have one more run this year at Group level. The second filly will come back to run in the new mile and a half Listed race at Naas at the next meeting there.
Shamar back to form at 25/1
He has always shown us a lot of ability. I'm delighted because he has just been disappointing, and I thought at the Curragh that he got a bad ride. He has been knocking on the door and I'd say it will be bigger handicaps for him from now on, maybe something like the November Handicap later on in the season. The ability is in him, he was placed in a Grade 3 over hurdles, so there is plenty of ability there, but he is just a bit of a head case. We have had him since the spring, around February time. That's his eighth run for us now and he has always been there or thereabouts. I thought he should have been placed the last day, and before that he was third to Order Of St George who is favourite for the St Leger.
4 for Weld at Galway at 636/1
She deserved that. She was a shade unlucky not to win at Wexford and she made up for it there to give us a nice four-timer,. She is rated 78 and she'll go for a handicap next.