Going - Soft. Overcast and showery
Jackpot Pool - 607.68 Dividend - 425.50 Winning Units - .03. Placepot Pool - 19,191.27 Dividend - 72.90 Winning Units - 184.18. Days Aggregate - 119,506.50 Last Year 137,848.85
Expensive purchase Daytona makes winning debut for O'Brien
Highbury See See lands tidy gamble on second handicap start
He did it well. He had a nice run at the Curragh the last day and I think he likes a bit of ease in the ground,. Hopefully he’s a horse for Galway. We’ll tip away and see where we end up. It wasn’t the plan to be back so far, he must have been slow away. He had a good draw and we were going to try and make it but things just went wrong, anyway it worked out.
Declaree digs deep to land fillies handicap
She loves this track, she ran well here earlier in the year,. She got a bit bumped in Roscommon and it didn’t really help her. She’s a big filly. I thought at halfway Ben had a nice position and he said she really wanted it today. When they came to her she dug deep. She’s paying her way, she’s a lovely filly. I’d say, she’s got a bit of size, so hopefully they’ll bring her back to the shed and she could be a nice broodmare at the end of the year. We’ll probably try to get a bit of black-type later in the year but she has a bit to go yet.
Sneddy Eddie gets back to winning ways under McGettigan
He’s always been a horse that needed soft ground, looking at his form. He got it today and we fancied him,. He was down to 50 and he was claiming 7lb off him today. He seems like a very nice wee jockey, he’s a good lad. I’ve started using him a bit recently. He’s a good rider and does what he’s told. This horse can’t handle a fast surface. We ran him once in Dundalk last year and he didn’t handle the surface at all. He needs a cut in the ground. He’s a fine wee horse. He is what he is, he’s moderate, but he’ll do a job. We left home this morning at 8am, we fed him at 6.30. He deserved to win a wee race for us.
Starford appreciates trip and ground on handicap debut
Offshore Bay makes all to land maiden under Gary Carroll
Eastwatch last to first to complete doubles for Slatterys
You can see the size of him. He’s a very good horse, he’s a four-year-old all day long,. We ran him in Leopardstown and dropped him out the back, he still ran green there — he’s a big backward horse. I think the sky's the limit when he gets to four. I think he is a very good horse. He beat a horse rated 101 there and he said he was idling the whole way up the straight. He nearly got himself beat looking around the place, he’s just a big baby. We made the wrong decision the last day, he’s just a galloper. He wasn’t hard on him and he was running on in the finish. We were happy but disappointed with what we did ourselves, the way we rode him. We probably should have been second or third if we rode him more forward. Today around the track he didn’t travel early on, he’s just a big baby. I think he could be a Melbourne Cup horse. I think he’ll get a mile-and-a-half or two miles when he steps up. I would love to put him away for another while and wait until September or October. The owners wanted me to bring him back and run him, I didn’t want to run him until then anyway but the owners wanted to go again. I’ll give him another little break now.