Going - Standard. Overcast
Jackpot Pool - 3,000.00 Dividend - 1,050.00 Winning Units - 2. Placepot Pool - 23,012.48 Dividend - 223.40 Winning Units - 72.08. Pick Six Pool - 2,124.92 Not Won. Carried forward to Leopardstown on Saturday 6th April. Days Aggregate - 98,723.00 Last Year 122,124.39
Moments makes all to open account
Bay scores again at Dundalk on first run for Coyle
We don't have him too long, three weeks, and hopefully we can keep hold of him now,. On that evidence he'd probably stay even further. That was the one doubt coming into it but he's put that to bed anyway. Daire as very good on him. We just told him to ride him cold and in fairness to the young lad he used his head, he seen Colin moving and he moved up with him. He's a nice little rider now and great value for 10lb. We'll probably go back handicapping if we do hold on to him, maybe this trip again or we could try him over a little bit further, which would open things up, as he does settle well. We were saying before if we did hold on to him we'll show him a hurdle and hopefully get another couple of wins out of him.
In-form Orr fires in another winner on Wild Shot
He won — just about!. I don't know if I'll drop him back to a mile-and-a-quarter now or whether he ran a bit flatter than last week. Oisin said he just didn't feel the same as he did last week, he was a bit flatter. I'd say we won't run him for a few weeks after that. He's had plenty of runs and he seems to run better fresh. We won't panic to run him again and might try and find something in about four weeks. He'll probably get another 4 or 5lb for that. The form worked out well from last time with the second winning during the week and that probably shortened his price a bit. We did alright last time though and we're not too badly off this evening. He doesn't owe me anything now. When I got him he was rated 47 and he'll be up around 60 now. That's not too bad an improvement. He'll probably go on grass during the summer and the owner is keen to have a runner at Galway.
Dundalk brace for Orr on Alfredo Arcano
He's a very good horse. He's just so much better around a bend and on the all-weather,. I know he ran really well in Dubai, when he was beaten a couple of short-heads on the opening night. He got a stone bruise two weeks after that and we were on the back foot over there. I was delighted with his first run and he could be a horse for the dirt there next year. He's a 100 plus horse now. We didn't chance him this year. We'll go back to Lingfield now and it could suit him well. Kachy will be hard to beat but you can't be afraid of one horse. He seems to see out this trip well now and we'll give it a go, it's 180,000 pound race. He'll run in the big handicaps throughout the year but I think long term he could be a horse for the dirt in Meydan next year and we'll have to train him for it. I didn't want to step off the plane this year and go changing our plan to do it. He's smart out of the gates, he travels and he's a big powerful horse. He's getting the trip well, he travels and he stays well now. He seems to relax a bit better these days.
Tynamite makes it 2 for Marnane at Dundalk
No problem for Beau Warrior in making it 5 on the spin
2nd in the feature Keatley goes a place better in the last with Noelie
We're happy enough that he's won a race. We put in plenty of mileage with him, over and back to the north of England and down to Lingfield the last day,. He has just turned a corner and strengthened up in the last month or six weeks. He started off on a very high mark. The best he finished in a maiden was seventh but he started off on a mark of 70. The filly that beat me in the last (Beau Warrior) finished sixth in a maiden and started off with 55!. Hopefully the handicapper won't be too hard on him and we'll get another shot at one of them. He just got there. My hand was forced that I had to use him as a pacemaker at home for working a couple of horses and he seemed to be loving it when we let him bowl along in front in his work. Ben rode him up here and led the horse that ran in the last race (Major Reward). He came in and said he loved it in front.