Nadia's Boy makes winning start over hurdles

McCarthy strikes again at Listowel

Jody is a huge asset and while I secured her early last week, I had a different horse Thinking Man in mind for her. I thought Thinking Man was really solid but when he got balloted out, I switched her to Ollie La Ba Ba. Thinking Man ended up getting in a reserve and while he ran well to a point, his run petered out. Jody gave the winner a peach and got him up where it mattered. We are just having one of those weeks and everything is bouncing our way.

Fifth winner of the Harvest Festival for Eoin McCarthy

I'm delighted as Mick (Mortell), who also bred the mare, is in hospital and this will help in his recovery. They have been very good to me and I'm sure they will hold on to this mare to breed from in time. She is just a lovely mare and bumped into Emily Love at Limerick (in May) so I'm delighted she got her day. She will be a nice mare over a fence in time.

Williamson lands Listowel feature for Elliott

'Champagne stuff' puts McCarthy on top

last year, I left here deflated when getting out of jail with just one big-priced winner (250/1) and while loads ran ok, it is a funny game as the only currency is winners. At the back end of last year we didn’t have the string of horses we wanted and it was one-thing-after-another which was going wrong. We worked hard at getting quality young horses though and got back rolling in the spring, after going nine months without a win. A month ago, I said we had savage depth with some lovely handicappers, maiden horses and unraced ones and it was the best team we ever had. I dreamed of having six winners but would have settled for three, so this is phenomenal.

McNamara off the mark with Gaelic win

our week from last year was never likely to be replicated and we have been hitting the cross-bar this week, so this is a relief. We had been a bit unlucky with a few of our runners but the horses have been running great. I tried running Gaelic Des Chastys over hurdles earlier this week as he is so much better ‘in’ over hurdles but he didn’t get in, so I ended up with three horses taking each other on in this race, which is a pity. Gaelic Des Chastys was unlucky at Roscommon (in August) when his jockey eased up and then he didn’t get 2m7f in Killarney. The syndicate is headed by publican Josh Sheahan from Askeaton and by God they’ll celebrate this.

Cooper's favourite an emphatic winner of Listowel bumper

She is a very nice filly who came back in from grass in the middle of July, so has two months of work done. I hadn't her really drilled so she will improve from this. We went away to do work with her two weeks ago and she worked well with a horse (Saint Clovis) who finished second here yesterday, who I think is a very good horse. . She has a great attitude, will go on soft ground and we'll train her for the Listed bumper in Navan next. She has plenty of size so she will make a fine staying chaser down the line.

Gleeson gets another good tune out of Lark