Going - Good To Yielding, Yielding In Places (Straight), Good (Round). Overcast
Jackpot Pool - 25,000.00 Dividend - 89.50 Winning Units - 195.32. Placepot Pool - 69,335.36 Dividend - 183.40 Winning Units - 264.57. Pick Six Pool - 100,000.00 Dividend - 7,368.40 Winning Units - 9.5. Days Aggregate - 826,162.00 Last Year 727,095.00
Soffia pays for the drinks in the opener
It's hard to be confident in races like that but we thought we had her really good,. Danny said there wasn't a lot of pace on the far side so we had to let her roll. Lady O'Reilly has with me a long long time and it's nice to train a nice winner for her. I suppose we'll try and get a bit of valuable black-type for her later on. She won the price of a few drinks today anyway!. The trainer could do with her staying in training next year as he's very low on ammunition so I hope she does but we'll wait and see. She was bought by my daughter Amy as a foal, it was her very first pinhook. That was her first buy and it turned out very lucky.
Eziyra has Canadian target after Group 2 success
She's a wonderful filly to train. She's now won five Group races and been second in two Group Ones, sheer consistency,. We've won this race a lot of times and that's three years running now. This is a very good filly and I'd say she could be the best of them from sheer consistency. I've had it in my mind to go to Canada for the EP Taylor and that would be possibly her next race and then we'll go on for the Breeder's Cup Fillies and Mares with her after that. She used not to be that relaxed and that's why she wears the hood but on the race track all she does is battle. She's a very courageous filly and a very good one. Everything worked out well today with the tactics. The plan was to be handy and if nobody was making it to make the running himself. She's very straight-forward. She's a very genuine, very sound filly and I said if there's a nice gallop sit second or third and if there's no pace make it yourself as you're in the key box, drawn one. It doesn't really matter as when she won the Group 3 at Leopardstown we rode her from last. That was a very good Yorkshire Oaks. She was actually coming back going to the line. She looked for a few strides like she'd win it but they just quickened by her, with the three-year-olds having a weight difference. We'll look forward to Canada with her and then the Breeder's Cup. I'd say this is it this year. She's been a group winning two-year-old, a very good three-year-old and good four-year-old.
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