Going - Good. Good (Straight course); Good, Good to Yielding in places (Round), changed to Good after Race 4
Jackpot Pool - 3,171.04 Dividend - 3,171.00 Winning Units - .75. Placepot Pool - 13,029.44 Dividend - 16.90 Winning Units - 768.8. Days Aggregate - 132,302.53 (7 races). Last Year 179,686.55 (8 races).
Last Encore justifies market confidence on Nursery debut
Transcendental makes all to win sprint handicap for Cromwell
Town And Country swoops late to land Navan maiden
I’m delighted with that dropping back to five. The quicker ground probably suited her. She won her barrier impressively but was a bit disappointing at Naas. Billy likes her and hopefully she can progress from this.
Gun makes every yard to blow away Claiming race rivals
A mile suited him and he looks to me like a tough and hardy handicapper. He could go for a mile nursery in Listowel. We bred him and have a full brother and sister coming along.
Shigar does enough to hold late Chariot run
He bled unfortunately after his race in Galway. I don’t know whether it was the ease in the ground that might have caused it. He’s been consistent all year and the handicapper has given him a chance and dropped him down 2lb to 80. He’s probably deserved to get his head in front. It’s great for Bill, that’s ten for the year for us. We’re a small team and it’s brilliant.
Northern Sonas completes Navan double for Billy Lee
He’s a lovely big straight forward horse who dropped into a nice grade and up in trip. It’s lovely ground and he got a very straight forward ride. Hopefully it’s onwards and upwards and we’ll see where we go from here.
Molly Hall a third career winner for Alan McIntyre
Niall said everything went to plan, she broke well and he was able to get a breather into her down the back. She’s tough and she stays. She has a great attitude and I’d love to have her attitude with all the other horses we have. She’s mad up for a fight and grinds it out. She won over 1m3f for us and then we came back to a mile and one which was probably ill advised as it was a bit sharp for her. When I saw this 1m6f I was just hoping for good ground as I thought she would take beating. I have 11 in training at the moment mainly for the Flat and we have a couple of bumper horses.