Results Galway Mon, 29th Jul, 2019

Lethal Steps forward to take the opener

This horse has always threatened to win a nice race like this. He has a big engine but he can think about it a little bit,. But Davy gave him a great ride. We left the cross noseband and everything off today to try something different. It’s nice to get a winner at Galway. I thought it would be a tough enough week.

No hanging about from Slevin on Linger

Innisfree rises to the task to score for Ballydoyle

Galtee Mist just holds on in thrilling finish

She surprised me the way she’s done it. I was a bit worried this morning as she hadn’t eaten up last night. We took her temperature and scoped her and she scoped perfect. She’s very genuine and very game. She thinks she’s a six-furlong filly but actually stays better than one would think. The draw helped her and Colm gave her a great ride. She just held on. Tom (Egan) is a great supporter of ours and we go back a long way. He bought her himself.

Great White Shark bares her teeth for Townend

Fantastic for Jody. I think it was her first ride in the race. Some guys wait all their lives and never ride the winner of it, but Jody looked like an old hand, coming from off the pace. I just said to her ‘see how you break. If you don’t break well, wait and wait and come wide, and keep out of trouble’. And that’s what she did. Once the mare started to pass one or two horses, she found that she was liking it, and the two of them just took off. Jody said she couldn’t believe how well she was travelling in the dip and once she passed one or two the mare just took off. I had this race in mind for her all along. She’d had a hurdle career and I thought this mare might improve on the flat. I said to Malcolm Denmark (owner) 'we’ll go to Galway, there’s a nice race there'. But as things turned out, I think she would have been the outsider of our ones, but with Jody’s 7lb claim and her first run back on the flat after her little break I thought anything could happen. That race is a bit like the Grand National. Look at our other horse, Mr Adjudicator, he got no breaks whatsoever. He had a slow break, got caught on the rails, never got out, and was a fast-finishing fourth. Royal Illusion probably ran a bit too free at the start and Legal Spin didn’t look like he came up the hill.

Halimi digs deep for Manning

Russian Diamond sparkles in the bumper for O'Connor

He was very disappointing at Christmas, and mine were all a bit under the weather at the time. We were lucky enough that the Mees were patient and there was always Galway for him. He’s a gorgeous big horse and he schools very well already at home so we can’t wait to get going over jumps with him in time.