Brassil plans coming together for Mulryan horses You Raised Me Up set in motion what could be a fruitful spring for Martin Brassil and Sean and Bernardine Mulryan at Naas yesterday. The successful navy, yellow and red silks will be in evidence plenty at the big meetings in the coming weeks and months. The Mulryans have You Raised Me Up in partnership with Chiat Kwong Ching, but Longhouse Poet and City Island represent the Cheltenham Festival winning couple solely. City Island won Roscommon native Mulryan’s own race, the Ballymore Novices’ Hurdle, in March 2019. Their focus could be back on the Cotswolds next month through Longhouse Poet. “Longhouse Poet is in the National Hunt Chase at Cheltenham and if the ground came up soft he could go there,” explained Brassil. “He’s a real staying chaser and the further he goes the better he’ll be. He might be another National horse (following in the hoof-prints of the stable’s Numbersixvalverde).” It hasn’t been plain-sailing at all with the aforementioned City Island, and the County Kildare-based handler is putting much of it down to the going he’s been encountering. “We’re thinking of going back over fences with City Island and see how he gets on. He just doesn’t handle this winter ground,” said the Clare native. “The year he had all the success in he won a bumper in the middle of May, a maiden hurdle in Galway and everyone was complaining about the dry ground all that winter. “We’re going to run him wherever he has his ground this year.”
