Going - Sprint: Good, Good to Firm in places. Round : Good to Firm, Firm in places. Overcast
Trifecta Not Won. Pool of €130.83 carried forward to Sligo on Tuesday 24th August. Jackpot Pool - €24,758.00 Dividend - €530.50 Winning Units - 35. Placepot Pool - €12,917.00 Dividend - €22.50 Winning Units - 430. Days Aggregate - €59,012.00 (7 races). Last Year €24,724.00 (8 races).
The Grey Rebel wins Cork opener
Weld's Warrior soldiers on
Declan's Warrior has lots of pace and won the race in the first furlong as opposed to the last one.
Lordan back with another Sprint winner
Celerina is improving and is beginning to get the hang of things . we'll see what the handicapper does now.
Await The Dawn best of Fermoy trio
Kitten has Weld and Smullen purring
Blackwitch adds to Hogan's score
O'Callaghan produces first Irish win
I don't know how many winners I trained . they go by prize-money over there, but I won $27m in total over there and trained about 80 Listed and Group winners. My biggest win was in the 1999 American Oaks. I came home a year ago but it has taken a while to get the hang of things back in Ireland. I was struggling with finding the right trips for my horses and my instructions to Ben Curtis today were to ride to his own instructions!. Training horses in America is like running in Chester every week! The tracks are very sharp and ‘stretching' horses over different distances is completely different in both countries. I'm delighted to be back in the winner's enclosure again!
