Downthecellar wins for patient Plumbly

Third-season novice gets off the mark

Jumping counts as Black Samurai annexes gold

I put the hood on him today but he (jockey Sean O'Keeffe) told me to leave it off the next day as he was idle with it. Sean said he was going to keep galloping away mad and thought he'd win anyway (with Greenway Machine's fall), but it is easy to say that! It wasn't the strongest race in the world but hopefully he'll progress from it. He is a fine, big strong horse and is still fairly novicey - he had a fall in Thurles and it didn't help. We'll tip away in that league for the summer and he is a grand horse.

Stormy Master gives O'Keeffe his double

He can travel well but what he finds when it comes to the business end is the thing. The fences seem to keep him interested and travelling and I might just keep him to chases.

Ryan fires in another winner with Fairyhill Run

That is a really good mare. She was only beaten a nostril in a Listed hurdle here and was very unlucky not to win, but she is way better over fences. She is a big scopey mare and (stablemate) Waitnsee will have to watch out. She is a fast jumper, is well able to gallop and will run in all those black-type races for the summer. I think that's her trip (2m6f). We have a bunch of real good mares and only Willie Mullins and Gordon Elliott trained more winning mares than I did last season. There is a lot of hard work put into this and we're also beef and sheep farming. We've 50 horses in training, 30 in strong training and 20 young horses coming along.

Gainford gets tune out of Mister Bells

Railway Muice has his day in the sun

Everybreathyoutake back with a bang

It was a lovely first run back. He got very competitive and I knew the way he jumped the second last he had a really good chance and he had plenty left in the tank. He had a little setback and will be a lovely horse over the summer. He is back on track now and we'll good fun with him and he is a novice for the whole season.