Punchestown Fri, 3rd May, 2024  State Man It's so simple to ride this lad and that's probably why I have such a soft spot for him. You can leave the weighroom, get to the start, make it up as you go along and he'll get you out of trouble. He's not flashy, he does what he has to do and that's probably why he keeps winning because he keeps a little bit in the locker. When you're riding him, you're confident on him and then you just have to keep him up to his work. We were wondering what tactics Jack would use and the game went according to how we thought it would go. He just did what he normally does, pulled it out when he needed to pull it out. Paul said there was a cameraman on the line and he stopped to have a look and prick his ears at him. That's the sort of horse he is, he's just got lots of talent and he keeps doing it which is huge. He's very uncomplicated, he's uncomplicated in his stable, he's an old pet.

Fairyhouse Sun, 31st Mar, 2024  Jade De Grugy That was a huge performance coming back from Cheltenham, she was very tough. Paul didn’t think he was going well a lot of the way but it just shows what sort of engine she has. It’s tough luck on Spindleberry. I thought she had it won at the last but as we saw yesterday so many races were lost between the last hurdle and the line. The extra half-mile was definitely a help to her and she does look like a two and a half mile mare. I’d imagine we’ll look at Punchestown with her now.

Cheltenham Tue, 12th Mar, 2024  State Man I was amazed with the way Paul rode him, I thought he’d be much more forward, I didn’t dream that he’d only be fifth or sixth jumping the fourth-last. But he just rode him with supreme confidence. I thought he’d make more use of his stamina, but Paul seemed to ride him for speed today and he clearly felt there was enough in the ground to take it out of the horses in front of him. But when jockeys are riding with confidence, they can do things like that and I feel that’s the way he’s been riding all season. He’s a fantastic jockey.

Leopardstown Sun, 4th Feb, 2024  State Man It's been a superb weekend for the team. I'm delighted for my owners and my staff,. It's extraordinary, everything has come together. We have tremendous owners that invest in Irish racing and they love it. It's tremendous to have people like that bringing in money from abroad to put into Irish racing. We're the beneficiaries and we're very lucky. He's a lovely racehorse. Himself and Galopin Des Champs, Fact To File and El Fabiolo have beautiful temperaments and that's what you need, it's half the battle in a horse. It means the trainer can train them the way he wants to and the jockey can ride them the way he wants to. It makes life a lot easier for people involved. I thought Christmas was his best performance up until today. Today's race was different, we tried something different with Impaire Et Passe but he obviously didn't enjoy being out in front. I think he'll take a lead and maybe he needs another half mile, obviously he needs fences down the road. It was an experiment to go down the Champion Hurdle road this year and it doesn't look like it's working. The Champion Hurdle is there though and I think there are only two horses in front of him for me. Anyone of those can get injured or run bad on the day, if you are not in you can't win it. Everyone will put their tuppence worth in and we'll see what happens.

Leopardstown Sun, 4th Feb, 2024  State Man We have our chance, State Man is out and racing and is going to go there in tip-top order. It’s all to play for. Everything is open. They (connections of Constitution Hill) are not going to be too worried and they’ll be confident enough they have enough in the locker to beat us no matter what we do. I doubt you’d be able to lock up Constitution Hill, as soon as he got one bit of daylight he’d be gone, and that wouldn’t be fair anyhow. All’s fair in love and war and you go and run. I don’t think there’ll be too many runners in it and a change of tactics might make all the difference.

Leopardstown Sun, 4th Feb, 2024  State Man It's been a superb weekend for the team. I'm delighted for my owners and my staff,. It's extraordinary, everything has come together. We have tremendous owners that invest in Irish racing and they love it. It's tremendous to have people like that bringing in money from abroad to put into Irish racing. We're the beneficiaries and we're very lucky. He's a lovely racehorse. Himself and Galopin Des Champs, Fact To File and El Fabiolo have beautiful temperaments and that's what you need, it's half the battle in a horse. It means the trainer can train them the way he wants to and the jockey can ride them the way he wants to. It makes life a lot easier for people involved. I thought Christmas was his best performance up until today. Today's race was different, we tried something different with Impaire Et Passe but he obviously didn't enjoy being out in front. I think he'll take a lead and maybe he needs another half mile, obviously he needs fences down the road. It was an experiment to go down the Champion Hurdle road this year and it doesn't look like it's working. The Champion Hurdle is there though and I think there are only two horses in front of him for me. Anyone of those can get injured or run bad on the day, if you are not in you can't win it. Everyone will put their tuppence worth in and we'll see what happens.

Leopardstown Sat, 3rd Feb, 2024  Madara He's a fantastic horse and I'm so happy. My son Ed and my husband Christian do all the race planning and this fitted timing-wise. We are used to travelling as we have more runners in France than we do in England. It looked like a really nice opportunity and Bryan (Drew) and all the lads involved were really keen to come over and have a go. We're a very small yard and the team at home work tirelessly so thank-you to them. We're delighted. We're staying for the racing tomorrow so it'll be a good old night tonight!. We've had runners at Punchestown before and love coming over here.

Leopardstown Fri, 29th Dec, 2023  State Man State Man showed tremendous gears today. Daryl came in on Impaire Et Passe and he said ‘we quickened twice and then Paul quickened away again a third time’. Daryl thought he maybe had Paul where he wanted him at the second-last and he said he quickened twice between the last two and Paul went away again. Testing conditions might really suit him (State Man), so we will be praying for rain over Cheltenham!. State Man ran a great race last March, finishing second to Constitution Hill. Hopefully will be around to keep Constitution Hill straight, but I don’t think Nicky Henderson and Michael Buckley are going to be worried. We are delighted to win and will probably come back here for the Dublin Racing Festival (Irish Champion Hurdle), and hopefully go on to March then.

Leopardstown Fri, 29th Dec, 2023  State Man State Man showed tremendous gears today. Daryl came in on Impaire Et Passe and he said ‘we quickened twice and then Paul quickened away again a third time’. Daryl thought he maybe had Paul where he wanted him at the second-last and he said he quickened twice between the last two and Paul went away again. Testing conditions might really suit him (State Man), so we will be praying for rain over Cheltenham!. State Man ran a great race last March, finishing second to Constitution Hill. Hopefully will be around to keep Constitution Hill straight, but I don’t think Nicky Henderson and Michael Buckley are going to be worried. We are delighted to win and will probably come back here for the Dublin Racing Festival (Irish Champion Hurdle), and hopefully go on to March then.

Leopardstown Thu, 28th Dec, 2023  Jade De Grugy He has Cheltenham bumper form from last year. He looks like a chaser, he certainly looked like one there, so we decided to skip his novice hurdle year and just go straight chasing,. Today is the reason that I hoped we’d be right. He’s a horse I’ve loved since the first day he came into the stable. I think he could go the whole way, with a bit of luck – you need a lot of luck in this game.

Leopardstown Wed, 27th Dec, 2023  Dinoblue Gentleman De Mee set a great pace in front and jumped fantastic. I wondered at one stage would she (Dinoblue) be able to stay jumping with him, but she held her jumping together. When he took a blow, she kept galloping and she is improving all the time. I’m very happy with that.