Going - Good, Yielding in places. Overcast
Placepot Pool - 11,445.68 Dividend - 130.10 Winning Units - 61.59. Quadpot Pool - 1,720.21 Dividend - 59.90 Winning Units - 21.23. Days Aggregate - 80,313.00
Tramore winner Gelee Blanche will have Galway aim
The ground made the difference. Brian (Hayes, winning jockey) said even when she stepped out on the grass to go down to the start there was a different spring to her step altogether.
Mullins Tramore double achieved with minimal fuss
That was a nice start for him. He has just had little niggles all season and we never got him going. I want to go novice chasing with him next season so we decided to break his duck over hurdles even at this late stage. A maiden hurdle win is not the be all and end all of his career,. He looks a big chasing type and that's what we will do with him. I'll have a word with connections and if we get a nice month of May we could go straight chasing with him. He would handle it bottomless but it's just with little problems all season we missed that ground. He handled it well today and we wouldn't be looking for it too much better than that. He is more a winter horse. Conor said he said he slipped in the dip the first time around and he just came a bit wider the next time with him.
Hamill takes the reins for the first time and Destiny delivers
David O'Brien has his string firing on all cylinders
That was great. I am delighted for his owner who hasn't been well and it's great to get him a winner. Denis (Tarrant) has been there since my father's time and he is a very loyal man. He bred the winner too so it will give him a lift,. He likes being up there towards the front. I ran him in Limerick and I shouldn't have, the ground was too soft for him. Even though he is a strong horse he just doesn't handle it. He was unlucky here last year when he got in under the last and the winner got a flier. He had a little bit of leg trouble then but we got him right and he will probably go for something similar again now. Hopefully we will get another one out of him.
Jack is back after Holiday
Money rounds off memorable day for de Bromhead