Going - Soft, heavy in places. Overcast
Jackpot Pool - €1,237.86 Dividend - €441.60 Winning Units - 1.97. Placepot Pool - €17,777.98 Dividend - €149.10 Winning Units - 83.5. Days Aggregate - €146,195.83 (7 races). Last Year €107,020.32 (8 races).
Millraceflow makes all to land Roscommon curtain raiser
Back-to-back wins for O'Brien's Spanish Temptress
La Tulipe Noire scores again for King and O'Gorman
We had no luck with her at the beginning, we did various different things, and then we got Seamie Heffernan to ride her five times and she hit the crossbar a few times,. Seamie would come in and say ‘this one will win a race’. We bought her because Jessica’s father Tony is a friend of mine, and he works for me. We bought her originally because Jessica got her Flat licence but she just wasn’t doing what we’d like so we got Seamie then and in fairness to him he got off her the last time he rode and said this mare will win. Sometimes you don’t believe it, you think this is a jockey telling me a story, but she did turn up for Jessica the last day. He said maybe we should take advantage of the 7lb so we did the last day. Jessica is riding great. I said to her if she could take up the running and slow it down but she said that there were two horses in it that were runaways. She said she’d sit in. She’s still very young and hasn’t a pile of riding done but she was very clever there. She’s very good, she has a lovely feel for horses. I’m surprised she isn’t getting more spins. We only have five horses and they’ve all won. We’ve no serious horses but we do it for ourselves, which is better again.
Mocking made work hard to gain breakthrough success
McMonagle on the board as Glenroyal wins Roscommon feature
Ephesus grinds it out under Sheridan to win at Roscommon
Coen doubles up as Nancee Spain takes nightcap
I thought the last day in Thurles that the winner sprinted past her and then she kept battling to the line, it wasn’t her fault,. I said to Ben today on that ground to put them to the sword and he did. He gave her a brilliant ride. He said he had to keep the gun to her head the whole way as she’s a filly that if you lay off her she’d turn around on you. She is a little bit strange but she has plenty of ability. She is a slow learner and hopefully there is still plenty of improvement in her. I think she’ll go on any ground but the Calyxs seem to want a cut in the ground. That might be her for the year. There is a mile-and-six in Navan next week but I’d rather step her up in trip next year. She’s had a lot of runs close together.
