Going - Standard. Very warm and sunny
Jackpot Pool - 487.91 Dividend - 341.50 Winning Units - .37. Placepot Pool - 16,043.71 Dividend - 18.00 Winning Units - 623.31. Days Aggregate - 196,895.88 Last Year 260,766.57
Speedy Eclairage mains perfect Dundalk record
Broke well and gone. This filly, believe it or not, I'm going to aim her up. She's an improving three-year-old. She's a bullet and she's learning how to settle in front. Around here she's a specialist, she's absolute dynamite. It is unbelievable - four from four. Colin Keane said the other day that this mare is starting come now even on turf. She always showed us plenty of boot from the gate, you win from the gates. My danger, I thought, was Little Queenie on the inside. Shane said he had to be out before her. He got to the front and did everything right. She could go for the Group 3 Mercury (in Dundalk) that I have won the last two years.
Browne-Souza rides second career winner on Just Before
Sidney Reilly off the mark for Oliver
A big horse. We actually thought a bit of him - maybe we were thinking about higher entries but, once you have missed those targets, it was unnecessary to keep him a colt so we just gelded him. He actually got struck into after that race (in Cork) and that's what the delay was. A lovely big horse and we did expect something of him and he duly delivered. Green enough too, so plenty to learn but a nice performance.
Rampage back to winning ways at Dundalk
We had to have a go at it (with all-weather mark) and with this weather it is riding a bit slower. He ideally loves a bit of juice whether it is on grass or here. He was just wearing them down and he kind of needed every yard of it. Probably didn't travel as well as he can do early on. I was a little bit worried before the turn in that we weren't just travelling well enough, but they went quick enough. Rob is riding out of his skin, he's having a serious good run of it. I had words with the handicapper why he was dropping him on the all-weather and not dropping him on grass. He is always going to be proven right in these cases.
Ballymagreehan another winner for Marnane and Rooney
Lombardi Trophy overturns Game Point form
Spring Dance brings up Dundalk double for Foley
She hasn't been beaten all that far in both her runs. She's a filly that Mr Zhang spotted at Deauville Sales last year and her dam is a half-sister to a Group 1 winner. To get a winning bracket with her is job done. As far as today goes, that was job number one. We will have a chat to the team, but she could be covered southern hemisphere time as her pedigree is a lot of Australian. She seemed to like the all-weather surface, so we might give her one crack at a four-year-olds and upwards black-type somewhere. We will see what our options are and what the team want to do. Plenty of positives (from first two runs) - she had never run for her previous owners and she came to us and we gave her a break. She strengthened up no end, she was just a big frame of a filly. We have done a lot of dressage and Flat work with her and she has really covered up the top half of her frame. It is great to get the winning bracket as it is all valuable to her down the line.
Well-bred Quickshot digs deep to win finale for Keane