Going - Good to Yielding (yielding in places on straight course). Windy
Jackpot Pool - 5,429.13 Dividend - 345.00 Winning Units - 11.04. Placepot Pool - 18,754.86 Dividend - 27.20 Winning Units - 481.78. Days Aggregate - 231,172.74 Last Year 215,486.94
Atlantic Coast storms home in Curragh opener
Dagoda finally gets her turn
I'm delighted she got it for her. Seamie was brilliant on her, we left him to his own devices.
Youcrackmeup developing into a serious stayer
From where she's come from to now, she's game as anything. That ground was quick enough for her. She might get into the Cesarewitch now, we might have to win another race before it! . She's some tough filly. Shane said she stays and every time something comes to her she goes again. We do nothing with her in between (races), she keeps herself fit. . She might make a nice three-year-old hurdler or we could look at a mile-and-a-half stakes race later in the year in deep ground. Something like the Oyster Stakes at Galway as she's won around there. . We could look at black-type, you wouldn't know where we could go with her. She does like a dig in the ground and that's probably as good as she wants it. . She's been some fun filly for her owners and we were very nearly selling her at the start of the year because she was showing us nothing. . There was disbelief when she won in Roscommon because she had shown nothing. I said 'we'll put a pair of blinkers on her and make her go out in front' and she hasn't looked back. She really shouldn't have got beaten in Limerick either and Jamie (Powell) was killing himself after it.
Henry Longfellow gives O'Brien another win in Futurity
You'd be very happy. The good thing about it was that it was a good solid even run race so he'll learn plenty,. That's what we were hoping would happen, either that or he would have had to go himself. It was lovely and I'm delighted. He's a classy horse, he's able to travel and quickens too. He got a bit lazy when he went there and Ryan caught hold of him and made stretch out, that's what he wanted. The next one is the Dewhurst, that is the plan. City Of Troy is coming here to the National Stakes so he'll go to the Dewhurst, just to try and divide them up. He's not short of pace but Dubawis do stay and his mother was very unusual as she won Group 1s from a mile all the way to a mile-and-a-half. Ryan said there was no problem if it was going to be heavy today, no worry about it, and no problem on nice ground. PC (Pierre-Charles Boudot) rides him in all his work and he said he was very happy. When those fellas are saying that, they know what they are at usually.
Vespertilio lands Debutante for McCreery & Lee
That was lovely. She ran a lovely race the last day,. Billy apologised for sitting back last, he didn't want to sit that far back but he said she just got squeezed early and got lit up for a few strides so he just wanted to settle her. . He did that first and she just happened to be back last. They were going a good gallop along and he was happy with her the whole way. She took him into the race beautifully and quickened up lovely. . She gets a free entry now for the Moyglare and we'll stick her in that now, I'm always trying to save a few quid! . We'll stay local, she actually qualified for a race in France today because she was bought in Arqana but I really wanted to come here instead of travelling at this time of year.
Odds-on Thunder Roll turned over by Weld's newcomer
She did it nicely, she had been working nicely and I thought Chris gave her a peach of a ride,.
Slieve Binnian strikes for Halford & Collins partnership
Hot Whispers takes finale for Hogan & Crosse