Going - Good to Yielding, yielding in places. Fine
Harty eyes Listed contest for Arugam Bay
Midnight Horizon defying the handicapper
Ajou lands Fairyhouse hat-trick
Tormey savours first victory on Are You In Or Out
I’ve had a few rides so far. I’m doing my Leaving Cert at the moment and had one exam today. I just got here on time. I’m apprenticed to Tom McCourt. I started off riding out for Paul (Stafford) and he got me into Tom’s. Tom has been very good to me this season and I’m very grateful for all my opportunities. I started with Paul four of five years ago, riding breakers and stuff, and then I signed on with him at the start of last year. He pushed me on to Tom to get more rides and get going. I’m delighted to get my first winner for Paul, it means so much. Hopefully after today I’ll get a few more rides. She’s a good, confident little kid. She has plenty of experience with ponies, show jumping and hunting. She’s a good kid to ride. Cork was on today and the usual jockeys were there and Sadhbh had ridden her before in the Curragh, when we actually gave her her first ride. We said we’d take a chance and roll the dice. She had won first time out this year, so it’s a bonus now she’s won two. Two furlongs down I was thinking ‘god you are sitting a bit quiet’. I thought she should have been getting after her a bit, but obviously she felt she had plenty of horse. She won snug in the end. Hopefully we’ll get another one in the grade, but I don’t think we’ll get another bite at the cherry now. It’s all down to the handicapper. It’s the kid’s first winner and I’m de
Duckadilly looks very smart in Fairyhouse winners' contest
She’s a filly that I’ve had an awful lot of faith in all the way through. She won in Naas last year and people were saying ‘how was she that long off the track?’. I was minding her a lot as I always held her in very high regard. I’m only a young trainer and to come across a horse like this so early.. You see her in the race, she goes through the gears very easy. Ben Coen rides her all her work but unfortunately he was down in Cork today. Scott McCullagh rode her work last year as well. I always wanted to see more out of her at home, and I wasn’t seeing it. Ben put the faith in me the last day, he said he’d never ridden her to be flat out. He said he hadn’t ever got to the bottom of her in her work and said he thought she’d take an awful lot of getting to the bottom of. She was working with very decent horses but I had to see it in front of me to really believe it. She was even doing that easy today and parking up when she hit the front. Nothing ever happened to her or went against her last year. We took our time and got balloted out in a Listed race at Dundalk at the end of the season. She was out with a friend of mine Derek McCormack all winter and did well but when she came back in she got stomach ulcers. She wasn’t doing well and I couldn’t train her. I sent her to another friend of mine, Paul Winters, and he turned her around in six weeks. He needs to take a lot of the credit for the filly getting he
Browne McMonagle fires in 62/1 treble via Delta
Fervent makes it two in a week for Crawford
