Gerri Colombe makes winning start over flights

Crawford has high hopes for O'Toole

He has probably grown, he's a wee bit bigger and stronger. Sure, we had to start somewhere and that was an ideal race to start on our doorstep. He's just a big, laidback, easy-going horse. We will just try and place him sensibly over hurdles this year. I really can't wait to jump fences with him but we'll not get too far ahead of ourselves. He will come on plenty for that and the further he goes the better he will be. He has a great temperament, in so far as he is laidback, so you can probably put him where you want to in a race. He had plenty of schooling done to go point-to-pointing and he is not a natural hurdler as he is probably a big clean jumper. I would be hoping I'd be here talking to you after the (Grade 1) James Nicholson one day. We will all meet up and talk about where he might end up in the spring. We know he will handle better ground but he needs a bit of experience as well. I'd imagine we will not be over-racing him this season. He will want a step up in trip in a higher grade. In the lower grade of race, probably the trip is not as important. When we start taking on the better horses we probably will step up in trip. He's in a handful of the most exciting horses certainly in Ireland this winter. He's a proper Gold Cup type of horse, I hope. He's a big staying chaser. He's not a slow horse and he will furnish more for another summer. He is improving all the time. We don't want to get to the bottom of him this season. He's still a big baby really. He's a horse

Ryan seen to good effect on Ben Thomson

Elliott and O'Regan at double with Fakir D'alene

Ewing makes his mark over fences

Dorking Cock a second winner on card for Crawford

The other horse, Poli Roi, would have been our more fancied horse but the ground went against him. He's a horse for better ground. I thought he was coming with a chance but to be fair to this horse he was up there and probably always kept pulling out a bit more. He had a very, very good run here on St Patrick's Day in the 3m2f chase and finished second there. He has been a bit overlooked to be honest coming into that race. We only got the one point-to-point run around Loughbrickland in the autumn and hopefully we will keep him hunter chasing. I'd say that was a proper hunters chase and that's not a bad horse. He was bought to do that and with Covid I didn't get to run him in any point-to-points. He's still only learning and I'm finding out about him even though I probably have him a year and a half.

Meade and Ryan team up for double with Pinkerton