Going - Good. Fine
Jackpot Pool - 2,997.37 Dividend - 2,098.10 Winning Units - .88. Partial Carry Over of 359.68 to Curragh on Sunday 28th May. Placepot Pool - 28,561.91 Dividend - 619.80 Winning Units - 32.3. Days Aggregate - 418,977.20 Last Year 341,541.07
Unquestionable a quality winner in the opening maiden
We're delighted with him. We felt he'd appreciate the step up, it was big ask to throw him in over five first time in a Stakes race, he's going to get even further than this probably. Ryan was very happy with him. He went to the line very strong. It's very hard to beat a run and he had a good run. He looks like a Coventry horse.
Bargain buy Givemethebeatboys lands the Marble Hill
It's great to kick off the day with a Group 3 winner. He was very professional out there and he out battled the other horses the whole way to the line. He was very impressive when he won at Navan, a furlong down you'd think 'how is this horse going to win?' and he put his head down and galloped the whole way to the line. He hated the ground that day and was green. He's learned an awful lot from that and will learn an awful lot from today, he'll be even more competitive the next day when we go to Ascot.
Art Power continues his Irish love affair in the Greenlands
Mashhoor leads home 1-2 for Murtagh in Orby Stakes
The plan was always to come back on Guineas weekend, we had a great time here last year. When he got a rating of 102 this looked like the perfect race although 1m4f was a little unknown. The horse has been training really well at home and showing all the right signs that he had improved. I'm really delighted the way he won today. He can win at 1m2f and now he can get 1m4f so there are plenty of races for him. We went to Ascot last year and the ground was firm, he probably didn't enjoy that. We'll make an entry for him but there are plenty of options.
Paddington provides O'Brien with twelfth Guineas win
I'm delighted for everybody at home, it's a big team of people, and I'm delighted for the lads. We went to Ascot first time with him and he was very babyish. Then he came back and won a maiden very easily here with Seamus (Heffernan). He wintered very well and we were very happy with him in the spring. He ended up in the Madrid on a lovely mark, it was a lovely place to start him as it was over seven furlongs, even though the ground was soft. Then he came back here and won the Tetrarch in soft ground again so we weren't really sure about the ground with him. Obviously he's a Siyouni out of a Montjeu mare. He was always a beautiful mover but you are never sure until they do it. Seamus loved him the last day and he had been doing everything really nice since. He's a fine big horse and is maturing very well. He's very good looking. He was a little bit slow away but Ryan got his position very quickly on him and he didn't light him up to do it. He's a very exciting horse.
Ascot on the horizon for Betterdaysrcoming
I asked the boys for a dead-heat and we very nearly got it!. The winner did well, he had a good run last week and needs that good ground. He had a long layoff between his first run, on heavy ground, and then last week's run at Naas so we thought he would improve and he has. He was staying on well to the line. We'll think of the Britannia at Ascot for him.
Sheridan rides out his claim on Timourid
He's a likeable oul horse and he's been running well all year. It was sticky the last day, and we dropped him further back then on purpose but it just didn't suit him. He doesn't want to be in front too soon so it's hard to ride him handy but you have to. If you drop him in further he might just lose interest, he's a bit of a monkey but he's a good oul monkey. He's got done in a few head-bobbers and I thought he was a big price today as he's only ran one bad race this year.
Trustyourinstinct justifies good support on debut
He looks a nice horse. We thought he'd run well and he'll have learned a lot. He was green in the middle of the race there but I thought he went to the line well. It was a good performance on debut. I'm not sure where we go now, it's a difficult enough spot when you win first time at this time of year. He'll probably end up going for a winners' race. You wouldn't be rushing to go 12 but he should get it.