After race at Punchestown Tue, 30th Apr, 2019 (1st)  Ruby said he was too settled and was not as pleased as he was in Cheltenham but I thought in Cheltenham he just ran very free. You can’t keep racing like that and I was much happier with today’s performance, albeit the second horse has been to Cheltenham and Aintree and had two very hard races. He’s a fair machine but we were the beneficiary of him (Felix Desjy) having those hard races today. I’m happy to stay over hurdles and try and make a Champion Hurdle horse out of him. I think he could be good enough so we’ll see. W P Mullins

After race at Cheltenham Tue, 12th Mar, 2019 (1st)  It was a terrific performance and he is good horse. We took a risk running him on goodish firm ground at home, but we thought he had an engine on him. We debated whether to go for the other race (Ballymore Novices’ Hurdle), but when we saw this rain coming we said we would come for this race. The forecast was a big thing once we knew this ground was coming. He was well within his own cruising speed. He looks a real good one on this type of ground. He is a very good horse. We came away from his work at the Curragh last week thinking he was one that was going to take a lot of beating, no matter what he came up against. W P Mullins

After race at Leopardstown Sun, 3rd Feb, 2019 (1st)  Elixir D’ainay ran well in a maiden hurdle in Punchestown. He’s a horse with a lot of ability and a chasing type down the line,. We think he’s a Graded horse, so we’re giving him a go in a Graded race and if he doesn’t win, he can still be a novice next season. Prince D’Aubrelle is a horse with plenty of ability, but he’s fragile and difficult to train. W P Mullins