Berto blossoms for McNamara at Down Royal

He does appreciate that better ground, we ran him on softer ground through the winter, and the lads were hoping that he would get into the Fred Winter. It was on softer ground than he would like. He had some nice runs and just missed out on the Fred Winter, so they gave him a spin around in the Triumph just for a day out. This is much more back to his own level of stuff today, but he did it well and travelled well. You'd like to think he would be able to do something on the Flat as well - because we tried to get him into the Fred Winter, he's probably fairly exposed mark-wise over hurdles, so we had to come back for a maiden. We'll see where he goes, there's rated novices and things for the summer. I'd say mixing and matching - the lads probably prefer hurdling to the Flat. That will be the priority, or we will aim that way. I'm sure the Flat will definitely feature along the way too.

Bella backs up for McConnell

He Can't Dance has the moves to give Elliott a 1-2

Canyon leaps to debut win over fences

He won a point-to-point for Gavin (Cromwell) and we haven't schooled him that much over fences. We knew he would be good, he's very good over a hurdle. Even the last day in Fairyhouse, Sean Bowen rode him, he probably jumped a bit high, but he was very good there today. Paddy was happy and he said he was filling himself up and having a look in front. He did it easily. He said he didn't mind them getting to him because he knew he would pick up and go.