Going - Heavy. Overcast
Jackpot Pool - €7,538.10 Dividend - €1,319.10 Winning Units - 4. Placepot Pool - €32,491.14 Dividend - €302.10 Winning Units - 75.27. Pick Six Pool - €6,329.57 Not Won. Carried forward to Listowel on Thursday 14th September. Days Aggregate - €395,501.00 Last Year €321,615.00
Claimed horse wins Listowel's opener
we are really pleased with that and took the chance today, as we had her in tomorrow too. She handles that ground really well and while it’s probably not far enough for her, on that ground it was a test and was ok. There’ll be another one in her now and we might go to Galway next week and there might be an option or two at Dundalk over the winter. we got her from Ado McGuinness and he did a really good job with her and she’s had two very good runs for us now. She was well claimed for E10,000 by Louis Conway (at Ballinrobe in June), who is head of the Go Golfin Syndicate so fair play to him.
First-time blinkers helps Willow win
we liked her a lot all the time but were very disappointed with her on her last couple of runs but in the last three weeks she has come back to herself. She is a big tall filly who just needed that bit of time and Gary (Carroll) said the blinkers just sharpened her up and that a stiff mile or 1m1f is her trip and she loved the ground. She’s a model of a filly to look at and I think with the size she has, I think she could do anything; I thought she wouldn’t be at her best until she was four.
Zawraq is back, Manning has a 1st for Mullins
it’s been a good week and that was a good performance and he has done that very very well. From what I gather now he goes into quarantine now and goes down to Australia - i didn’t know a great deal about the horse and this was my first time to ride him but from watching him running and winning he was a very smart horse and again was very smart today and did it very very well.
'Old enough to retire' Twister causes upset
he’s old enough to retire and we didn’t expect to win today and neither did anyone else I’d say! . That was Sean’s first ride on him and today he had his ground, nothing else, and it worked out for him.
'Mick's pick' Lisa wins her 2nd Kerry National
he was a novice and I was going to let Jack (Kennedy) ride him but I have to say Michael (O’Leary) has full faith in Lisa and wanted Lisa to ride the horse. It was his pick and he wanted her to ride it as she’s lucky and he’s right!. The pressure was on last year when we had plenty runners and plenty fancied ones but this year we were hopeful more than confident.
Future looks bright for '20-20' Saga
the less you have to beat the better but he is a nice horse and he jumped reasonably well. He’s learning as he goes along and he’s a bit of a relentless galloper. He won well and on his Ballinrobe run he was entitled to beat the two of them; it looks he’s a winter horse now as he went on that ground I don’t know where he’ll go next but he will improve jump-wise.
Byrnes hotpot survives final flight fright
he looked the class horse of the race but he still had to go and do it. He settled well and jumped well enough apart from the mistake at the last and won handy enough I thought. Davy (Russell) was very patient and left the other horses do the donkey work and it’s great to get the win for the owner (Martin White). We had a winner yesterday with Alto Esqua and he has a good few horses with me but hadn’t much success for the last seven or eight months. He’ll tip away in a novice but you wouldn’t be jumping up and down after today! If we got heavy ground he might run in the November Handicap.
Cummins ends 35year wait for Listowel winner
it’s my lifetime’s ambition to have a winner in Listowel and I first came here 35 years ago and I said if I ever have a horse, I want to have a winner in Listowel. I could retire now because my legs are gone!. he came to me as a full horse and we have a cracking two year old (son) by him; he’s broken and riding and he’s called McGregor - he’s called that for a reason. This is a super horse and he is bred by his owner James O’Gorman, who had his dam and grandam. He sent me down the horse . A great friend of mine, a Listowel man Anthony Broderick who lived beside me, died back in July and Anthony was with me for my first winner and is with me today for my next winner. Anthony told me I’d have a Listowel winner some day. The horse is called after James O’Gorman’s nephew who died seven years ago in October.
