Going - Yielding - Soft. Overcast
Placepot Pool - 20,898.16 Dividend - 29.00 Winning Units - 466.19. Quadpot Pool - 2,092.90 Dividend - 16.90 Winning Units - 91.16. Days Aggregate - 140,106.00
Oxx and Hayes team up well with Doolin Dancer
. I believe the Foran Final is his target next.
Simply A Breeze sheds her maiden tag in Killarney
She was entitled to win that and I shouldn't have run her the last day as the ground was too quick for her. All her form has worked out and she just missed out on a bit of black-type (in a Group 3 at the Curragh in August) and we'll try and get black-type before the end of the year. The softer the ground the better. She misses the kick and likes to travel into her races and she has a good turn of foot in that ground. She was entitled to win that from the ratings and is very talented.
Handicap hat-trick for busy Bravado
Coltor rewards Killarney early birds
Opera winner Weld on song with Killarney double
Simply True relishes his spin around Killarney
'Smasher' Shanroe delivers for Thornton
The ground was probably too quick for him at Leopardstown and he needed three runs to run in the November Handicap and that's where he'll go now; he also probably needed the six or seven pounds (for winning today) to get into it. He'll go back over hurdles as well and he'll go on winter ground but maybe not on extremes. He is still learning his trade and he beat seasoned handicappers today. He is a smasher and it just makes no sense to me that he won three bumpers and I never got a phone call for him. You couldn't fault the horse at all and he's a nice one to have.