Going - Standard. Warm and dry
Jackpot Pool - €412.29 Dividend - €288.60 Winning Units - .24. Placepot Pool - €23,711.84 Dividend - €1,254.20 Winning Units - 13.27. Days Aggregate - €133,255.65 (7 races). Last Year €226,415.46 (8 races).
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It was great and the blinkers have worked wonders for him there. They have made him concentrate, but he was very genuine there. Got a lovely break and Colin said his mind was on the game there the whole way around the bend. The last day he was just a little bit fresh. It was a good shout by everybody when that race presented itself straight after last week to drop him back down (in trip) and go for it. Hopefully, the owners (Gaelic Thoroughbreds) will have a bit of fun with him for the foreseeable future in the summer. He battled. Blinkers can be used for different reasons but they made him concentrate on his job. He'll have them forever more because of that. Six or seven (furlongs) around a bend.
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He's a beautiful horse - he's a fine, big, strong horse. He's quite sleepy at home, so I think there is a lot of improvement in him. Fantastic - a good starting point for him, so looking forward to him. You could (see him going out in trip) but also I think he is going to sharpen up for the run. I don't think he is a mile and a-half horse by any means. Maybe he could stretch out to 10 (furlongs), but I think kind of a mile to 10 would be kind of his trip. Yeah I think so (find something on turf soon), we'll take him home and see how he is and make sure he comes out of it and make a plan then.
Slattery keeps it simple as Drucker gets off the mark
He wasn't showing much early in the season. We thought he was a nice horse last year, he had three runs and they were mediocre. I said to Pat (Garvey, owner) that he did his best piece of work last Saturday morning. Andrew rode him about two weeks ago at home and he said 'this is a nice horse'. He is developing. He said he is still a bit raw, he said there is more to come.
McGettigan makes all to land nightcap on Princess
He certainly did earn his fee!. The work she has done at home all the time was so much better than a class of 0-60. Today, they didn't get near her. I said 'get as far ahead of them as you can' and he did. I think he was 25 lengths in front at one stage. I was afraid she wouldn't hold on purely because if she saw another horse, she probably might change her mind. She was for sale yesterday or this morning at 100 pounds or 100 euro with a head collar. When asked how much the head-collar was worth, I told my friend this afternoon 95 euro!. If she hadn't won, I wasn't going to train her. She has caused me more thoughts up and down and inside out. In the end, it didn't matter because a winner is a winner. The fact that she has won, it is brilliant.
