Just Wonderful for O'Brien in the Curragh

I'm delighted with her. Ours have to be good to win first time. We never really looked at her until last week. We dropped her down the other morning, in her piece of work, and she took off. She worked like a very exceptional filly but she was just ready to come here. Obviously we've been seeing that ours have been very green first time and making a lot of improvement from their first to their second runs. She's obviously natural to do that. You can never be sure first time what way they are going to be but Ryan was very happy with her. We'll probably look at (Royal) Ascot with her. She'll probably have to go there off the one run, if she goes, and the race you'd be thinking about is the Albany. Ryan won on the dam (Wading) in Newmarket and he still remembers her very well. She's a very well-bred filly.

Patuano brings her homework to Headquarters

That was grand — pity it wasn't a double! [Lethal Promise finished second in the opener]. She obviously loved that ground. I've been scratching my head with her because she's been working well and ran poor the last day. So I'm just delighted with that. I'd nothing really planned because I was actually looking at the race in Listowel next week. She ran well there last year and I thought the bend might suit her. She's as tough as nails and might go there. The owner Tom is a brother of Sean Jones. He has a few horses with me and I'm delighted to get another winner for him. He also had a nice filly last week in Cork and is a great supporter of the yard. She got into a lovely rhythm. I told him 'wherever you're happy just leave her at that rhythm, if they're going too hard she won't be able to go with them and leave her alone'. He did that in fairness and she was carrying him there.

O'Brien doubles up with impressive Fairyland

O'Brien charts treble through Merchant Navy

You'd be delighted with him obviously. We felt he was just ready to come and the whole reason for running him was to see before we went to Ascot. We felt that he was at a racecourse gallop stage. The lads in Australia said he was a very good horse so we just took it totally on trust. He did five little canters, that's all he did. Ryan was very happy with him. The plan is to go to Ascot for the six furlong race and I think he has to go after that. I think he's only here for Ascot and then gone after that, whatever commitments he has. I thought there would be a lot of improvement in him. I was just hoping for a nice run today, that's all, so it's all a plus. He wasn't stopping today but he's obviously not short of speed either. He made a good bit of ground up from halfway and Ryan was riding him that way because we were afraid he would get tired.

Romanised thunders home to give Condon first Classic

In-foal Opal Tiara shows Churchill spirit

Hence powers O'Brien to a Curragh four-timer

Heffernan at double with Medal Of Honour