Going - Soft (Hurdle Crse), Heavy (S'chase Crse). Overcast
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Footpad another nice juvenile for connections
He looked a nice horse in France on his last run and has probably done that way better than I thought he could do,. I haven't been very hard on him since I got him and he's not in very long so hopefully there is plenty of improvement. He's a horse that could go anywhere. I have half a dozen three-year-old hurdlers in at the moment.
Drama as Mullins and Townend make it 2
It looked like we were fortunate there but we'll take every bit of luck we can get. They maybe went too slow. We thought that would suit him but it looked like they slipped him and we were fortunate. We'll have to go up in grade now and see. Looking at him there it looked like he wants a longer trip.
3 from 3 for Mullins at Gowran
We were a bit fortunate with the better jump at the last,.
Court doing Crawley proud
Her first run in a handicap last time just caught her off guard a bit,.
Smashing impressive in Gowran feature
I'm delighted with that. I thought it was a brilliant ride from Johnny as he's not easy this guy,. He jumped super for him and I loved the way he sat on him going around the top after jumping the fourth last. He's an exciting horse. I'd day the John Durkan will come too soon and we'll sit back and see with him. He'll get an entry for the two mile one at Leopardstown and we'll see what the ground is like. Obviously we have Sizing Granite for that as well. There's also a nice two and a quarter miler at Thurles in January. I think he loves that soft ground and we'll get our business done in the winter and then see where we are.
Monksland wins on chase debut
We said we'd take our chance over fences and see how it goes and if it didn't work out we could go back to hurdling,. His schooling went great and he has spent half his time swimming as well. When he jumped he jumped well. We thought with the Grade 1 at Christmas he might struggle but if he took to jumping fences you wouldn't know where he could go. You'd have to be happy with his first run over fences. He did run in a point-to-point but that was his first chase. He was good other than the second last first time when Sean did well to stay with him. That's his first winner for me and I'm delighted for him. I've been very pleased with what he's been doing. He has great hands and horses jump great for him. He comes in to ride a couple of mornings and does a lot of schooling. He's a really nice lad too.
Gem lays down Thyestes marker
I told Andrew to be positive on him as he stays and I'm delighted for Andrew as he's hit the cross-bar a few times for us,. The horses are in good form - they are sound and healthy. He loves it here and jumped great. If he keeps improving it's a possibility he could come back for the Thyestes.
