Punchestown Sat, 7th Jun, 2025  Prince Zaltar We’re delighted with him. I just thought the track at Kilbeggan last time was just too sharp for him. He just seemed to be off it from the word go and got too careful. Even today Dylan said he was a little bit careful after the last day. I’d say a little bit more juice in the ground would help him as well. We missed a part of the season because he had a problem with his withers. It’s a divil to mend and the girls at home worked very hard to get them right again. We decided that we’d go novice handicap chasing this year and it’s great that it’s worked out today. I think he’s a horse that could end up running in the cross-country at Cheltenham in November. It’s something I’d love to do, I’d need to discuss it with his owners. Obviously he’s going to be eligible for novice handicap chases this season. I’d say we’ll be careful about where we run him and see what happens but I’m delighted he’s a winner.

Kilbeggan Sun, 1st Jun, 2025  Give Him A Chance I’m delighted. He got a dirty fall (on his previous run) in Limerick and Tiernan gave him some ride today. They went some gallop and he was flat out, but he was patient. He had three behind going out on the final circuit and gave him a brilliant ride.

Tramore Sat, 31st May, 2025  Kyle Valley She won two point-to-points for Sean Osborne, one of my best friends. Micheal (Doyle, owner, with his wife Caroline) was involved with her at that stage and they sent her my way. She struggled over hurdles and she's ordinary, it's no secret. I told her owners that if we ran in four handicap hurdles, that she could run over fences off her hurdles rating. She had experience from point-to-pointing. She went up 3lb for being second in Kilbeggan and Tiernan claimed 5lb off her today, so she was 2lb lighter over fences, off her hurdles mark. It looked expensive at the time going through handicap hurdles but now she's competitive at both. She looked really well in the parade ring today and the lads at home have done a really good job with her. She looked a million dollars. It was the plan to go out in front. She had a very light weight, in a very ordinary chase around the bends here and with loads of jumping experience. I'm delighted she has won. Micheal is a great supporter and is involved in another horse with Lar Byrne. It's lovely to get a winner for him. The horses are running really well and I have very good team at home making it happen.

Limerick Thu, 29th May, 2025  Gatehouse Boy he had been disappointing, as his work at home had been good so it was head-scratching why he wasn’t delivering. I was hoping he’d be in the shake-up today but the race fell apart and he stayed going. He is a big raw green horse but seemed to come forward with every run and my 5lb claim was a help. He is still very raw and backward.