Going - Good To Firm (Watering To Maintain). Fine and sunny
Jackpot Pool - €3,000.00 Dividend - €2,100.00 Winning Units - 1. Placepot Pool - €21,771.00 Dividend - €8.80 Winning Units - 1712. Pick Six Pool - €183,825.40 Dividend - €7,148.70 Winning Units - 18. Days Aggregate - €197,786.00 Last Year €90,286.00
Highland Reel on a merry Gowran jig
He is a lovely horse. I got to the front a bit soon. The two horses in front of me stopped a bit quicker than I had hoped. He was quite green and he had a little look at the gap [entrance to the parade ring]. I just gave him a belt to straighten out and I didn't realise I was so far ahead. He is a nice horse and you would imagine that he would be well able for a step up in class.
Angel Of Joy delights his backers
That's grand and it was very straightforward. I trained his mother (Moy Joy) back in 2004. She nearly won the Ladies' Derby. She was just beaten and got injured in that race. I ran his full-brother (Ardhoomey) in the maiden that the first winner (Highland Reel) ran in at Leopardstown and I think the world of him but he needs a wind op. The brother holds Group One entries all over the place but he just needs that job done and it is good family.
Badger Daly plots a lone furrow
He is my second winner. God knows how many seconds we have had with different horses on the track. He won a maiden for us at Dundalk [April 2012] and he was placed a good few times last year and that was his first run today after a break. He was fresh and we thought he would go well. He won when we were training him on a hill at home but we gave that up because of drainage problems but we are using it again now and it is the right job for him. He doesn't do a whole lot under pressure and he gets swallowed up in his races, so we said we'd get to the front today and just keep going. He takes a pull and when he gets swallowed up he just throws in the towel.
Another double for Lyons and Keane
That's Colin claim gone and it's great. That horse is in again on Thursday [at Leopardstown] and he will probably go again. He got an easy lead today and he just took it and kept it simple. He is a Dutch Art and I thought he was all speed. He was badly outpaced in Cork and it didn't take a genius to work out that I had him in the wrong race. We said we would step him up today and see where we are with him. Hopefully we will go through the grades with him and see how high we get with him. He is a nice horse to have and he will progress. He has done some growing from two to now. I'm delighted for Colin and fingers crossed now that we will just finish off the season in the form we are in.
Eighteen Summers battles hard for the win
Wildcat Kitten scores off a light weight
Lordan doubles up on Leaf
