Vitorio Piel too strong for Grey Jude in Leopardstown opener

It was a nice performance, hopefully now he’s just coming to himself,. I think he should improve again for a bit of nicer ground as the spring goes on. The final of this series in Punchestown is going to be the big aim for him. We had him qualified already and this race just fitted in nicely. It was a taking performance and it was nice to see him hit the line the way he did. The first day we drew a line through it. We bounced out to make all and he didn’t have the experience under his belt to manage with it, and his jumping was terrible on the day. We’ve ironed that out since. We’ve sat on our hands for as long as we could waiting for nicer ground but it didn’t materialise so we ended up getting him out today and taking a chance.

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Easy for El Fabiolo in QuinnBet Hurdle

Dee's Lady off the mark under trademark Donoghue ride

She had a couple of good runs in maiden hurdles last year but just took a while to come to hand as she didn’t come back to us for a good while,. The race went grand, Keith kept her out a bit for the better ground. It worked out grand and she won well in the end. She’s a nice filly. I’d imagine she’ll go chasing next year, she’s a big filly. I don’t think she’d really want heavy ground but at the same time she wouldn’t be one for the summer as she’s a big filly.

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Promontory wins Dublin National for Connell

That was lovely. He had a good run the last day in Navan on ground that I didn’t think he’d handle. We were expecting him to improve off the back of that,. He won a maiden hurdle last year, I thought it maybe wasn’t the strongest race and maybe he was lucky to win it but I always thought he’d stay that three or three-and-a-half miles and he did. A special thank-you to Aidan Kelly as he did a lot of schooling with him during the winter. Unfortunately he couldn’t ride him the last couple of times but he got a very good ride from Donagh. He jumped very well, Donagh said down the back he just kept jumping himself into it. He stayed all the way to the line and I’m delighted with him. Today was kind of the plan. When Aidan got off him after riding him at Fairyhouse, in a beginners chase, he said he’d be ideal for this race. He was always going to come here. That’s his second run in a handicap and hopefully he can keep progressing. He’s going to get a hike for that so we’ll see where we got after that.

Adaboy Mushy makes all to land bumper for Queally

He’s a nice horse,. He’d only been away once on grass, in Tipperary, but he had plenty of work done on the woodchip down in Curraghmore. He’d been working with all the decent horses so we thought coming here that he’d be fairly hard to beat unless he bumped into a very good horse. Fair play to the boys, Liam and Brendan O’Rourke of O’Rourke Construction in Liverpool. They thrown a few quid into the yard and I hope it pays dividends for them. He was green in his ways. He’s a fine big horse, around 17 hands, and I’m delighted with him.