Going - Yielding to Soft (Soft after R2). Raining
Jackpot Pool - 1,194.14 Not Won. Carried forward to Listowel. Placepot Pool - 19,108.84 Dividend - 142.30 Winning Units - 134.25. Days Aggregate - 285,722.44 Last Year 287,600.00
Sands has Listowel rivals all at Sea
It was a nice start. He's a horse we got from Germany but he's had a lot of issues,. He just started to come right in the last couple of months and I thought we'd pick out a nice maiden hurdle for him. He did it nicely. He jumped the first well but I think that was probably the only one he jumped well!. He'll probably have to learn. He was just a bit keen as a lot of those Flat horses are. We'll look at mixing it with him. There might be a nice Flat race in him before the season ends.
Zariygann maintains unbeaten record over hurdles at Listowel
Byrne's Kali proves King at Listowel
He was very good. We declared him on the chance of the rain coming and when it did it really suited him. We're delighted,. He had been running well in handicaps early on in the year and on his form I thought he had a right chance. We're waiting a while for him so it's nice to get a win with him.
Donkey Years returns to form with commanding hurdles win
We're delighted with that. He's been a good servant over the years and he's so much better handicapped over hurdles than fences so it was nice to get one with him,. He had promised a couple of times when he was placed but he was just very disappointing the last day. It's good that he's back and showed a nice bit of sparkle there. Mark said he was even keen at one or two points in the race. It's great to have a winner in those colours. I'd like to have one crack at the Munster National with him. Maybe before today I might have struggled to be allowed to enter him but he will be entered in it now, that's for certain.
Porter Floors rivals in Kerry National romp
What do you say, it's brilliant. He went hard and I have to say I was praying him across every fence on the last circuit,. He just kept the revs up and it was a brilliant performance.
Ewing makes most of opportunity on Shecouldbeanything
Drinks on Collins as Champagne Kid lands Listowel bumper
We thought he was going really well at home and had this race picked out for him after his last run at Clonmel. It's worked out really well. We wanted the rain. We just have three in at the moment and this is a special win. For a set-up like ours if you can have a winner at a summer festival like Galway or Listowel it's what you dream of. It's a massive day down here and it's great to be here, it's my first time here. We're three miles outside Newry, on the Co. Armagh side. We came down yesterday and are heading home tomorrow morning. It's great to get a winner by Vadamos as we've supported him. We sold a few foals by him. We breed a few but it's been hard in the past year or so trying to move stock on. Hopefully in a couple of years it will be back going strong again.