Going - Good. Overcast and showery
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Townshend delivers in Punchestown opener
He jumped well and did it well, obviously it didn't shake his confidence when he fell here at the festival. We'll probably just keep to more of the same with him. I don't know whether there is much around for him to aim for. He's a novice till December we'll see where we go. Galway is sort of the target with all these horses.
Caolaneoin battles back to deny Catcher
Icantsay lands gamble in style
Danny said when he jumped the last he didn't look around as we needed a winner to get us off the board!. He'll run in three-mile novice chases during the summer. He stays three miles well. He won his point-to-point and maiden hurdle over three miles but he's way better over fences. He's a great leaper. He can be a bit funny at the start but was great today. You couldn't but like him and hopefully, pleased God, he'll get a few more during the summer.
Delta impresses in easy win
We think he's a nice horse. We'll probably send him home for a month now and then have him back in to have him going early. Jumping is his game and Bryan said he'd come on from that again.
Tour shows his true worth on hurdles debut
We're not surprised as we always thought a lot of the horse. We brought him to England and thought he'd win there. Then he came back here for the festival and disappointed in the bumper so we said we'd kick on over hurdles. We think he's a very, very good horse and thank God he put it all together. Ian gave him a brilliant ride. He had rode plenty of work on him and had a lot of faith in the horse. The only mistake he made was the bad mistake at the second last and he did well to keep the momentum going.
Nobody Home records first success
Simone completes first double for Nolan
It's brilliant. It's my first double and I was also having my first winner at Punchestown this evening. She was due that. The last day she was very unlucky not to have got blacktype, she got stopped up the straight. I probably shouldn't have run her in Wexford or Down Royal, on the ground, she didn't handle Wexford at all. Her two runs in Leopardstown earlier on were very good against good horses. Hopefully she'll keep improving. She could go to the sales or she could go hurdling. We don't mind whether we keep her or sell her. She's well bred so we wouldn't mind keeping her as a broodmare.