Going - Soft, soft to heavy in places. Fine
Jackpot Pool - 1,253.47 Dividend - 877.50 Winning Units - .05. Partial Carry Over of 1,192.88 to Naas on Sunday 23rd February. Placepot Pool - 31,392.64 Dividend - 531.40 Winning Units - 41.42. Days Aggregate - 155,900.65 (8 races). Last Year 149,560.08 (7 races).
Great Attitude lands monster gamble for Cleary
I have to hand it to him, I told him to keep an eye out for a good horse and fair enough he did. I only got him there before Christmas and he had very little time off with us to be honest. Between himself and Paul (son) and my grandson James they all ride him and Rory did most of the schooling over hurdles with him. Was he 200s? Jeez I missed that!. I was told that he was down to 8s before the off. My throat is a little bit sore now, we were expecting a good run and it's a bonus to win it. It's a happy day for me but my thoughts are with the O'Sullivan family.
Power Roche completes quick double on Maxios Prime
Barry Lyndon is a welcome winner for McLoughlin
Donovan delivers on Westernersunrise
It's great, she's a lovely mare over a trip,. We'll tip away and see what we can find for her, I can't wait to get her going chasing. She stayed going, it looked turning in that she was going to finish third or fourth. She plugged on gamely. It's nice compensation after Dancing Jeremy getting a tumble in the last. He's up and everything is alright with him so that's the main thing.
Rockett prevails after Intense Bobbyjo battle
I thought it was a nice performance, beating an Irish National winner in the process, and it was a nice trial for Aintree. I'm very pleased with him,. It was tough coming back from the Thyestes only four-and-a-bit weeks before. That was tough and should leave him spot on for Aintree. They were very tough conditions there and he'll probably take a little while to recover from that but he has the time. I was very impressed with how slick he jumped, his jumping was excellent. We aimed him for the Irish National last year but it didn't work. He's a horse I think has the potential to run well around Aintree. Bobbyjo winners have been lucky around there. We just need to get there and have a bit of luck in running.
Ney bother to Buckley's versatile charge
Market speaks volumes as Spindleberry impresses
She was very impressive for only her second run over fences, taking on an experience mare like Bioluminescence,. I'm very pleased. I loved the turn of foot she showed between the last two to put the race to bed and then under pressure to throw in a good jump at the last. For a mare with only one run over fences I thought it was a hell of a run in a Listed chase. We'll look at the WillowWarm Gold Cup, the Grade 1 for novices, here at Easter. She seems to like this track. She's entered at Cheltenham but that might just come a bit soon after today. We'll look for other options but the race here at Easter would look the race at this point in time. She loves this track over hurdles, and over fences, and I always like keeping a horse to where they like running. Paul was happy enough that she'd stay much further. That was a good test of stamina today. She had looked like a mare with a future and now she's showing us that she has a future.
Treble for Mullins as Costello gets a hand from above