Going - Good, Good To Firm In Places (Straight), Good To Firm (Round). Overcast
Jackpot Pool - €20,741.29 Dividend - €14,518.90 Winning Units - 1. Placepot Pool - €44,215.56 Dividend - €851.60 Winning Units - 36.34. Pick Six Pool - €67,026.76 Not Won. Carried forward to Curragh on Sunday 28th June. Days Aggregate - €657,877.00 Last Year €553,290.00
Final Frontier starts his promising career
I thought he was a nice horse. He was working well with Rockaway Valley and I was hoping he'd come here and do that. He's entered in a few races including the National Stakes but we'll let the dust settle until later in the day and see what happens. He seemed to stay that six furlongs very well. He was pretty professional about it, and when Shane asked him to go he did.
World traveller Gordon lands 'home' win
It is good to firm ground but it is very kind ground, it's very nice ground. I suppose he is getting older and a little bit more ease in the ground is always a plus to him. He's a great horse to me and a great horse to Tom. We went very quick and just for about half a furlong I was caught a bit flat-footed but he stayed on and did his best work towards the finish. He won well. Hopefully back to Hong Kong in December will be the plan. It's nice to win at the Curragh as he does a lot of his work here but it is the first time he has won at the Curragh. Every time he came here before something went wrong. I wasn't worried about the ground. Firm ground doesn't bother him, it's only dead, sticky ground that he can't handle. I was afraid they would not go much of a pace but they did and he quickened away nicely. He may come back here for the Minstrel Stakes. We'll give the July Cup a miss and he can go on his travels then. He ran too fresh at Ascot, he hit the gate and ran with the choke out and it was a great run in hindsight. He needs a run every three weeks or else he gets too fresh like at Ascot. He could go to France for the Prix Maurice de Gheest and he'll go to Haydock for the Sprint Cup for sure.
Colour Blue wins nice pot at Headquarters
She's an honest little filly. She ran a blinder the last day and may have got there a bit early but she was travelling so well that Connor didn't have much option. She's a little fighter, although I suppose we were lucky it wasn't seven furlongs and 50 yards! I'd love to win a Listed race with her and she always tries her heart out.
Sovereign Debt well in credit at Curragh
Dandy said to me 'do whatever you want'. I got a good lead into the straight. We were going so steady I thought that if I got one burst away I'd keep going. He won quite well. He feels like a good horse but he just needs them to run fast. He likes to come off a rattling fast pace but when you're in this kind of company you can do what you like on him. He's had a lot of traffic problems in the past and I just told Chris to make up his own mind on how to ride him. He gave him a great ride and maybe that's the best way to ride him. I brought him over myself and he travelled over really well, ate up everything and he was so relaxed. He'll come back here again and deserves to go for all those races now. He'll go to Dubai at the end of the year.
Foley bags double with Hasanour
I'm thrilled with that. Shane said he travelled really well and when the gaps appeared he was able to take them. That's a good trip for him and he loves it here. He may go to Galway. Richard (McNally, owner) is a big Galway fan and he won there last year. The other option is a £150,000 handicap at Goodwood but I'd say he'll go to Galway. He didn't get into the Hunt Cup at Ascot but maybe it was a blessing in disguise as the ground was very fast. He's a very straightforward horse to train and winning like that gives them confidence. He could end up in Dubai some day.
Painted Cliffs on right track in Railway Stakes
We liked him before he ever ran but he disappointed the first day and Joseph said he was very idle and babyish. We put the blinkers on him at Leopardstown to help him concentrate, and I wasn't sure if it was just a bad race or that the blinkers worked. Ryan said he's a very nice horse. He likes him. Maybe we could leave the blinkers off him in future.
Jack Hobbs all class in Irish Derby
He did it in good style. He got a nice split at the head of the straight and then William waited with him which was right. You don't want to start pushing too soon. This old track takes some getting but I love the way he finished his race out. Quite frankly it's solid Epsom form, the second has run a blinder and was third to us at Epsom so there's nothing wrong with the form, truly run race. He's bred by Willie Carson and I loved the horse when I saw him. He's turned out well. We'll put him away now and aim at the Prix Niel at Longchamp and go to the Arc. We'll just try and have two more runs this year, he needs a holiday now this boy. He's big, rangy and quite light-framed and he just needs to fill out.
Silwana times it just right in Curragh
I don't know what went wrong with her the last day. She'll probably go looking for some black type next from a mile and six furlongs to two miles.
