Going - Good to Yielding, Good in places. Dry
Jackpot Pool - 351.30 Dividend - 216.30 Winning Units - 1.64. Placepot Pool - 11,146.88 Dividend - 19.70 Winning Units - 565.02. Days Aggregate - 183,158.00 Last Year 154,261.19
O'Donoghue's Majestic makes Waves under Whelan
He ran lovely at Naas and the way it has worked out with the first and the joint second was always in the back of our mind. I didn't know if he was a six or a seven-furlong horse, probably somewhere in the middle. I think the stiff just shy of six suited him today and a little bit of ease in the ground. He will (get further) and he might be one to geld, and go into next year as a six and seven-furlong horse, but I'm not sure - plans are very fluid at the minute. They are huge supporters of mine and every yearling they have sent us we have manged to win with, so long may that continue.
Sweet Thing leads home Oliver 1-2 in Navan maiden
She had a wee setback earlier on and just coming out now, but we always liked her. Travels very well, behaves very well. Very nice run at Down Royal - the rain came and it literally went to quite testing ground, so she handled that but obviously inexperience beat her first-time out. Today it was very simple. Billy looked to have loads in hand, looked to have the race in control. The only danger was our other horse coming!. We liked him (runner-up Keepcalmandsailon), I think ground was a big issue there (Down Royal), he just was literally caught out by the testing ground. He has improved vastly for that. We did expect him to be able to show this sort of ability.
Gazelle D'or just lasts it out in Navan nursery
Rosato makes amends for unlucky Curragh defeat
She got a bit stuck on the rail (in the Curragh). I'd say she was still a bit green as well, it was probably her first time trying to take a gap going forwards rather than backwards. We thought she would win (today), we put her in on Monday (at Roscommon) because we thought she might win and might need to go under a penalty. She won't go to Dundalk, she didn't like it up there so we'll keep her busy before the end of the season. Darragh was class on her, he was very clued in. I rang him last night and he knew all about her. I didn't know much about him, he was recommended to me. He's top-class now. I'd say she was still a bit green there and, in fairness, he gave her a good ride. He had to make a decision with which way to go and everything, and he did it very well.
Isambard Brunel makes it third time lucky under Lordan
Heffernan gets the gaps late on to win on Golden Ocean
She's gorgeous. Jim Ryan bought her as a yearling and she's an absolute oil painting. She's a beautiful, old-fashioned looking filly and she's bred to look that way. She's out of a three-time Group-1 winner by Galileo. Beautiful temperament and she is very enthusiastic. She's still relatively unexposed. We were learning about her on her first couple of starts. She went home then to Jim's farm for a couple of months and she freshened up lovely and she strengthened up. She grew up and she came back to me in beautiful shape before she won the last day. I'd say she will go a mile and a-quarter next year. She is one that it is nice to go through the grades with because she needs to grow up a little bit. Seamie really likes her and we will look forward to her next year.
Calzaghi delivers knockout punch to Navan opponents
McCreery gets Positive result in Navan nightcap
He is only furnishing into himself - he is a big, raw horse by a good sire in Make Believe. I think he is a very underrated stallion. I love him and they are all very honest and try hard, no-nonsense type of horses. That's exactly what he is. He just needs to furnish into himself and he needs to strengthen. He's getting stronger the whole time. I would have loved to have done that (trip) earlier, but he's just not strong enough. With time, he will really relish that trip.