Going - Hurdle: Soft, yielding to soft in places. Chase: Yielding, yielding to soft in places. Fine
Jackpot Pool - €788.89 Dividend - €552.20 Winning Units - .81. Partial Carry Over of €154.52 to Punchestown on Tuesday 10th December. Placepot Pool - €36,190.13 Dividend - €7.40 Winning Units - 3394.86. Days Aggregate - €189,536.79 Last Year €184,362.29
Puturhandstogether steps forward to land maiden success
He had a nice run in Punchestown and jumped well today. He quickened up well, Mark was very happy with him although he was green in front. He came on from his first run so I hope he'll improve again. His jumping was sharper as he made a few little mistakes in Punchestown and was nice today. I haven't really thought beyond today but don't think he'll go into a graded race.
De Bromhead's Sky Lords it over Cork rivals
He jumped well, Darragh was brilliant on him and I'm delighted for the Holians. He is a nice young horse, came to us highly thought of and ran well in a bumper last season. We're lucky to have him, he is a gorgeous big horse who has plenty of pace. I was worried he might be keen but they went a nice gallop and he was good. We came to try and win our maiden hurdle so that's done now and we might look to one of those novice hurdles in January now as Christmas will probably come too soon.
Pray Tell wins Grade 3 hurdle for Kenneally and Shinnick
Only By Night continues on the up with Cork Grade 2 success
She was good in Tipperary and has built on that. I thought today was coming plenty soon but with a race like this, you have to go for it. She is a very big mare, jumps very well and I'm looking forward to plenty more from her. The mares' novice chase (Grade 2) at Thurles in January would look to be her next race.
Energumene makes winning return in Hilly Way Chase
That was a very exuberant display from him. I thought Dinoblue would make more of the running but Paul (Townend) said his horse was just looking for fences to jump and wanted to go a better gallop, so he left him on instead of fighting him. I was very happy with how he jumped and he had been doing everything right since her came back in August. Hopefully he can keep going that way and it was a nice performance to build on for the season. He didn't look like he needed the run, galloped the whole way to the line and had looked excellent since he came in. Normally we skip Christmas (with his Hilly Way Chase winners) and the Clarence House Chase was what we did previously so we'll see how he comes out of it before making any decision. I'm told Ferny Hollow is fine and the news back is that that he is good and came home and I was very happy with how most of the rest ran. It was nice to get them out and started for the season so we'll try and find opportunities for them.
One Big Boum doubles up in penultimate race at Cork
The owners are from Carrigtwohill and Midleton and we had a long wait with him as he has had his problems. He ran here this time last year when he cracked a bone in his knee and had an operation so it was a slow process to come back. He went a bit right the last day at Wexford and went left today and he seems to idle when in front. Overall he has a bit to learn and isn't the finished article yet.
One And Only wins Cork finale after photo finish
