After race at Dundalk Fri, 23rd Jan, 2026 (1st)  Lovely performance. He's a horse we were sent from Mrs Jim Ryan and Mrs John Kirkland that they bought at the breeze ups last year. We got him into our system at home and decided to give him a little bit of time off through the summer just to mature and strengthen. He came back to me in great shape in September. He has impressed us the whole way through. Every little bit we have done with him, he has just continued to bounce the ball back at us to ask us to give him a little bit more. Ready to start there today, we knew he would come forward plenty for it. We knew he was streetwise enough to run a nice race, and this was fortunately the weaker division of the two divisions on the card tonight. He has done it very nicely and we'll have a sit down and see if there might be a winners' race coming up, so we'll see how he takes it. He will be a lovely horse for the turf later on in the season. I think he will (get a mile), and Jack said he travelled through the race well. We might be keen to stick to seven for the moment. Robson (De Aguiar) did fancy his horse (runner-up Fate's Gambit), so hopefully we might have beaten something smart there. Stephen Thorne