Well bred Weld filly wins L'town opener

it was a nice performance for her first start, for a filly that's bred to go much further and she'll learn a lot. She loved the nice ground and I appreciate the distance was always going to be a bit short for her. Hopefully next time with that benefit and over a bit further you will see a progressive filly. You could see the stamina coming through (at the end) and we ran her too short to teach her. We'll see how she comes out of the race, and see how she progresses, but obviously the Moyglare is a very logical possible next target for her. If for any reason we thought she needed more time we'd probably wait for the CL Weld Park Stakes over the stiff seven at Naas but the Moyglare is the most likely next race for her. Princess Highway was a real mile-and-a-half mare and this filly will be best at a mile, I'd say, this year.To be able to win over a sharp six around here was a bonus. We've only limited time to get her right for a Group 1; other fillies have two and three runs but she's come along the last couple of weeks and has progressed nicely.

Kinsella's lucky Ducky wins again

he's been difficult enough with problems with his stomach but we think we have that sorted and he's going the way I want. I was surprised the price he was after the way he won in the Curragh last time. Niall McCullagh said there wasn't much he could do with him as he was running away and hopefully now we'll get into the Bold Lad Handicap at the Curragh (on Champions Weekend in September) with him, that's the target.

Guineas pace-setter wins again for Bolger

this filly doesn't owe me anything as she made the running in the Guineas for Pleascach. She handles Dundalk as well so I have that option with her.

Nelson makes it third time lucky

You'd be delighted with that . He came forward lovely from his first to his second. He ran a nice race the last day but came forward again,. We could look at the Beresford or something like that with him. He gets a mile well and stays well. He was galloping out well to the line. You'd be delighted with the runner-up as well. He ran a lovely race and he's a lovely horse. He was just ready to come and you'd be delighted with the way he kept coming. They went an even pace and it was a very good run out of him because it wasn't a dawdle. It was a good run for a first timer.

Comeback kid Komnenos wins Group3 feature

it’s amazing, with what he's been through, to even be here today and a big thanks goes to the staff at home and every vet in O'Byrne and Halleys. It’s a wonder he's here at all as they gave him a 10 percent chance of racing again. He had an infection in his hind suspensory and they had to split his suspensory to wash it out and get the infection out; they even flew special maggots over from England to fight the infection. it was just an infection and it must have been something going around his system. There wasn't a cut or a mark or anything and it happened just a week or ten days before the National Stakes last year. You try to keep suspensorys together never mind splitting them; when you scan it it's still not pretty, it's a mush. He was six months doing nothing and it's only his fourth run. He probably doesn't kill himself when he gets to the front and hopefully he'll improve. If he's still in one piece in a few weeks time he'll come back for the Group 2 Boomerang Stakes and we'll leave him at a mile for the minute. The dream lives on a big longer and hopefully he's alright in the morning.

Atlas off the mark in style

Weld and Smullen complete L'town double

she did in nicely and picked up nicely and the jockey went down the brave man's route!. She's a nice filly and we'll see how she progresses before making a decision. She'll probably go for a handicap.