Going - Flat - Good; National Hunt - Good (Good to Firm in places). Overcast
Jackpot Pool - €3,347.00 Dividend - €937.50 Winning Units - 4. Placepot Pool - €18,489.06 Dividend - €249.90 Winning Units - 55.48. Days Aggregate - €75,017.04 Last Year €91,343.71
Pluto stars on the opening night
Full credit to the track as the ground is absolutely beautiful. He had a little bit of trouble around the bends which are quite tight, and hopefully he'll keep improving now.
Another Iconic performance by Aragorn
I was disappointed when the handicapper gave him 9lb for his win the last day but as usual he proved me wrong. Hopefully he won't go up too much for that, and he'll go to Galway next.
Bahrain storms in
He's like a lamb at home, very easy going and nothing is a bother to him. He's a good jumper, and the more you push him the more he finds. We decided to run him here over two miles and a furlong, rather than a longer trip later in the week, to get him jumping quickly. He's got 11.5 in the Galway Hurdle and just 9.10 in the Plate. We'll probably go for the Plate as it would be boring to win the Hurdle again!
Symphony is certainly on song
The horses are flying and we've hit a vein of form. Before Christmas we thought this was a really good horse and went for the four-year-old bumper at Leopardstown but came home disappointed. He struggled on the ground at Clonmel before running well at Gowran. We put him away with this meeting in mind, and he'll make a real nice horse for this time of the year. We'll hope to keep going through the autumn as his owners like going to the Cheltenham meetings in October and November. But he'll have to prove his worth to go there.
Laganbank pleases punters
