Mullins doubles-up as Sympa makes all

Crackerdancer impresses on hurdling debut

She was good and I was very impressed. She is maybe too brave at times, she'll have a cut if you let her and in fairness Eoin gave her a great ride. She was having a good look around over the first few and hopefully will improve a good bit from it which would be great. I think we'd have to look at the Mares' Novice Hurdle at Cheltenham now - I don't see why not. She's not a mud-lark, and if there's ease in it (ground) she's fine. If there's any juice at all, she'll be fine but you wouldn't like to chance her on really quick ground. There's a mares' novice hurdle for her next at Fairyhouse on the second week in February and after that, we'll let Patsy and Sharon (O'Brien, owners) decide on Cheltenham.

Lilly follows-up on Clonmel win

It makes a big difference being able to dictate from the front and we'll see how she comes out of this now. We'll look for something similar next.

Barcoe & Landers on the mark with Allez

On her run the last day she deserved her turn. She met a nice horse the last day and I'd have been disappointed if she wasn't there or thereabouts today. She is only starting to get the hang of things and has learned to jump better.

De Benno makes all as Landers doubles-up

The ground really suited him and he had a light weight on his back and Cathal gave him a super ride. He's getting better as he is getting older; every other year he'd go wrong and he's had an awful lot of problems but touch wood he seems to be tipping away recently. He's had no problems this year and every other year he had problems with his legs and back. He could go for the Dan Moore Chase in January next - it depends on what the handicapper does to him though. He'll probably run if he gets into the handicap. We could also give him a run in a hurdle race as he's rated much lower over hurdles.. That's my first Graded win as a trainer but I've had some good winners trained by Noel Meade. I've four horses in training and it's a hobby, but it's still nice to make a few quid out of it!

Ambition has Power dreaming of Cheltenham

Everything we've asked him to do this year, he's done. We said we'd come here instead of Down Royal (on the 26th) as it was a maiden. The dream is Cheltenham and he is now qualified but he'll have to get another run because he lacks experience going over there. He could run in the newly arranged Punchestown hunters chase next or else the winners' race at Thurles, but that is in three weeks time so he might go to Punchestown instead. If we're still in one piece, he'll rock on to Cheltenham then. My sister-in-law Alexandria Gardner originally owned him then the lads (Ed Tynan, Kieran MacLennan, Paul Shanahan and J.P. Magnier) got involved and fair play to them, they had left me do my own thing with him and have given him plenty time. Because he is such a big horse, we said we'd look after him and fair play to them, they have given him all the time he needed. I have 15 in at home, some pre-trainers and we are mainly a point-to-point yard and he is the only horse we have for the track. That's my first and Rob James' first racecourse winners. I'm 34 and have the license three years but haven't run many on the track yet. We'll keep doing what we're doing and we're a selling yard but any trainer in the country would be delighted to get horses like him and I'm very lucky to have owners like the lads. Rob is class and is the best young rider around - when Jamie (Codd) and Derek (O'Connor) call it a day, it will be up to the likes of him and Jimmy O'Rourke to take over.

Nolan & McInerney take the last with Monotype

We tried to bully him a couple of times and it didn't suit and I said to Donie that it was bottomless and it might suit to be going that bit easier. I said to jump him off handy but to keep taking him back. He had good form on the flat but hadn't ran that often which was a little bit of a worry and he's not easy to train but thankfully he jumped that bit better today. Thanks to Gerry Hogan (bloodstock agent) for buying him and at least he's after winning now. We'll probably go for a handicap next and hopefully there won't be too much done with him after that. He seemed to just relish those testing conditions and we'll keep our feet on the ground.