Going - Yielding, Yielding to Soft in places - Changed to Yielding after R3. Dry
Jackpot Pool - €424.60 Not Won. Carried forward to Ballinrobe on Tuesday 2nd May. Placepot Pool - €20,874.33 Dividend - €180.20 Winning Units - 81.12. Days Aggregate - €138,076.72 Last Year €149,130.05
Top Speed makes all under O'Connor
I Don't Get It fights them all off
He's a good wee horse. I think it is soft enough, but he goes on any ground - he's ground versatile. He's in Downpatrick over fences on Friday night and he may go there.
Bella Bliss rewards her owners in Down Royal
She was very unlucky the last day in Hexham (when second), she should have won. She came out of it very well and the guys Claire (Wylie) and Mark (Devlin, owners) wanted to come here. When we saw the entries, we said it was worth a crack. She has done it well, she's a pretty decent mare. She has a bit of class about her. I think she will go chasing at some point in the summer, but we might have a crack at another hurdle in the meantime. She has been a very consistent mare and I wouldn't mind a few more like her.
The Flier Begley delivers for Crawford
I've always thought this horse was well above average. Nearly every race he has run in, the form has worked out. He has been very, very unlucky a time or two and should have won here one day when he lost it at the line to Noel Meade's horse who has gone on to be a decent handicapper. Fences will really be that horse's job. He went on a nice gallop, he was going to make them honest in behind. Ultimately he was just too good a horse for what was behind him. I think he could be a graded horse over fences. Plans are fluid but I will concentrate over fences now with him. He will just probably need a bit more experience. He not had much experience really - he's had two runs in point-to-points, one run in a hunters chase and that today. I imagine later on in the year he will hopefully be fit to go into some of the decent novice races. Whether he gets a wee bit of handicap experience over the summer, we'll see.
The Abbey registers first win over fences
Ballydesmond wins hunter chase on Rules debut
Ossie's Lodge wins the bumper for Martin & Gleeson
He has always showed us that he is a good horse. He has plenty of speed. There is only one winning post, no point in being in front at half-time or with 10 minutes to go!. He ran in a Listed bumper and we knew he would come on a lot from that. It was worth going that route with him. We'll see what way he matures, he is only a four-year-old.
