Going - Standard. Overcast
Jackpot Pool - 1,068.33 Not Won. Carried forward to Leopardstown. Placepot Pool - 20,036.57 Dividend - 115.70 Winning Units - 121.12. Days Aggregate - 194,225.34 (8 races). Last Year 218,124.11 (7 races).
Dun Na Sead blitzes Dundalk sprint rivals
When she won her maiden first time out in the Curragh, we thought we had a stakes horse and then everything went wrong. Even this year, she is only just coming to hand. We thought last week she was never ever better. They say sprinters get better with age and she is probably proof of it now. She had a lot of trouble with her feet and she had two wind operations as well. It has all come together now, eventually. She has so much speed she takes a bit of pegging back. I don't know where we go after here, we will have to have a close look at the programme and see. She obviously handles the all-weather very well. The lads were giving out when she got 8lb the last day, I think they can forget about that!
Rocky Dreams wins his sixth Claimer at Dundalk
If they want to pay me to go away (just back from holidays), I don't mind watching on the tele!. He is brilliant around here. To be fair, the lads had said while I was away that he was absolutely tanking. Some days you just go through the motions with him, but he has been tipping away and has been flying, so it didn't shock us at all that he won. He is just different up here, I don't know why but he just doesn't go on grass. If he isn't taken, we will have a bit of fun during the winter. He has done his job for us and is not always the soundest like most of mine. He is no worse than the rest of them. If someone wants to have a go with him, they will have a go with him. He's a grand horse and the other horse (third-placed Is That Love) ran well on his first run for us - I think Shane (Foley) thought he just hit the front a bit too soon on him. It is a learning curve with them. Prize money gives me a bit of room to go shopping, I'll have to have a look back and see if we can take anything!
On Our Radar continues Slattery's good form
We did give him a good each-way chance, I thought he was off a good mark.
Sandy Creek easily lands maiden for O'Brien and McDonogh
Bobby K another winner for in-form Gary Carroll
Halfway up (the straight) we didn't know and Gary didn't even know if he was going to get there!. He was asking me would you put headgear on him and I think he'd take it off himself to be honest! He knows more about racing than we do. We are glad now, he is getting old and anything after that is a bonus. Down in class and back to where he belongs, he's in and around that mark now. This track, if they get a lot of rain, they are riding on the top of it and I think that's what he wants, top of the ground.
The Bog Bank strikes for McCourt
Shamwari completes Dundalk double for McDonogh and O'Brien