Going - Standard. Overcast and showery
Jackpot Pool - 357.82 Not Won. Carried forward to Gowran Park on Saturday 8th November. Placepot Pool - 33,454.12 Dividend - 18.20 Winning Units - 1284.35. Days Aggregate - 164,957.00 (7 races). Last Year 188,924.48 (8 races).
Lunigiana eventually gains a deserved winning bracket
She was unfortunate not to win a few times so, when you get the job done, I'm just delighted for Renzo Forni who bred her. She's booked in to City Of Troy. We'll see whether we come back for something else, and we'll get her home and see what Renzo wants to do. She has oodles of speed and oodles of class, but Billy said yet again she hit the front and she just thinks she has done her job. You just have to be brave and sit as long as you can, and sure she was galloping all over them. Job done. It's a crucial win as she is actually a Listed-placed filly as well as a two-year-old. She has done nothing wrong and, in actual fact, the last time she ran up here she got a little stress fracture on her hind fetlock, so she had to get a few screws. That's the only time she was out of the first four. Very consistent filly, she's only small and I'd say she got bogged down a few times on the ground and still nearly won. She hopped off that surface and Billy said she loved that.
Well-bred Prevalence knows her job on second start
Very important - she is related to Juncture. As Colin said, it took us all of her three-year-old career (Juncture) to get her to tick the box we wanted. Total different filly tonight than she was the first night. She acted clueless on the first night and we knew coming (tonight) we had a different filly. Going to the start, I thought she was a bit on it. Then didn't have the pace to hold her position and I said 'for a small filly, you are going to have to be good now because he (Keane) had to take back and go'. She was good and honest. Time will tell how big the race is. We are a long way off where we want to be, but we will give her that chance now. She has all her three-year-old career to hit the boxes we need to be ticking for that pedigree. The good news is, job done at two, and I can stop now. You won't see her again before May.
Unterberg scores for Hourigan and Hassett
Aviatrice boosts her sales value with Listed win
She's a very good filly and she's getting better. She travels well and it is the end of the season too. I think there is a lot more to come. Her fractions here last month were very hot. She's a brilliant filly and improving, she's tough. She loves that surface and will make a better four-year-old. She's in the December Mares Sale, so she is going to go there. It is the terms of the syndicate again, a bit like East Hampton last week. I would love if somebody bought her and kept her with us - that would be the dream. She is going to be a valuable mare now.
Manton Bay completes quick double for connections
Nothing kind of went right in the early part of the race. He's very raw and we haven't a lot done with him. Lovely eye-catching run in the Curragh, he stepped forward from it. We haven't really done much with him since the Curragh, to be honest. I'd say he has a lot of scope, he grew a lot in the last sort of month, and he is definitely going to make some helluva three-year-old. I think he is going to be a good horse. No, he's not in the sales. We sell the odd one privately. He's a real three-year-old type and is one we are looking forward to. He is by Ulysses and will get further. Fingers crossed, he might get into a nice horse next year.
Marnane and McAteer complete 116/1 treble with Tokenomics
He's a wonderful horse. We had him last year and we always loved him. He has just been a little bit frustrating, and he has done very little wrong, to be fair to him. He won first time out and then was touched off in a couple of races. His training was a little bit interrupted from silly things between ground and pulled muscles here and there. He is owned by some great people, and they are very patient and have been very good to us. We are delighted for them. He'll go on his holidays now. He deserves it as he has been on the go a while. It is a difficult thing to do, win a handicap off 98. It is a tough thing to do. He travels really well, doesn't kill himself when he gets there. I can't wait to step him up in trip. I just think if he puts himself to sleep in races, he has got a good turn of foot, and he might be difficult to beat over a mile and a-quarter. He won't go any further than that. He's just a lovely horse and I'd say he will probably end up competing in Listed and Group races.
Keane doubles up on impressive Johnny's Oasis
The biggest thing I think with this horse is that he just needs a fast pace. He needs the race to collapse. It was a bit of a muddling race (last week). He was drawn wide (tonight) and I didn't think he would win. I wasn't going to run him actually; he was so far out. I just told Colin to hunt away with him and that's all he did. If they go fast, he is laughing, and that is exactly what happened. It is great for Jimmy (Fairhurst, owner) and the boys. He was a dear breezer, he was an 80 grand breezer. He wasn't a cheap horse when we bought him and a little disappointing since we got him. He’s made up for a bit of lost time now. He'll be worth a few quid. I think he'll make into a nice hurdler during the summer next year. We will have to get a hurdle winner now very shortly!