Well backed Playin Cool wins Leopardstown curtain raiser

Luke said he didn’t really enjoy the ground but he was impressive there. He stuck at it well and showed plenty of heart. He’s a nice type of horse and did it well today. I’d say Aidan’s horse traded short in running. He got enough of them yesterday, let someone else have a little go!. Our lad got in a little bit of trouble turning in, off the heels off horses, and he was still a little bit babyish even after the two runs. He was well backed the first two times and was well backed again today so someone knows more than I do.

Back-to-back Knockaire Stakes wins for Norwalk Havoc

That was great. It’s the first time all year he’s got his ground. Seamie said he just keeps on finding in that and the further he goes the better he goes. You’d imagine on that he’d go a mile-and-one or a mile-and-two easily. Just today I didn’t put him in the mile-and-two because it was going to be heavy ground and a mile will probably be good. I thought they might get to him but there was no way. Seamie said there was no way they were ever going to get near him, he just kept picking up. I think there might be a race in Rome for him. He wants soft ground and he just loves it.

Viper gives Harrington quick brace

He had a great run last time in Punchestown and he’s a great horse,. He’s won two this year and he’s been placed, he rarely runs a bad race which is fantastic. He’s very consistent. He’s creeping up now and we might just give him one more run on the last day of the year. He actually goes on any ground and has run well on the all-weather as well. He’s very versatile.

Shaool steps up in class to easily win Trigo Stakes

I’d love to know where this improvement has come from, Ben says the ground is key to her,. She showed it here one night when Yudish rode her, on soft ground she really comes strong. She had been training really well, all the horses are going well. I thought she’d be very competitive here today but that was a very good performance. I was a bit worried where he was early on but he got a beautiful gap up the inside and she quickened up really well. I’m delighted, they are a great bunch of people. Vince O’Driscoll is after travelling over from America and the pressure is always on when he travels!. I don’t think there is anything left for her, she’s been busy. I thought today would tell us if she’d come back next year. She should, she’d going out on a high now. She’s a remarkable filly. She’s tough and hardy and works well every day. It was a brilliant performance.

Pillar powers home for Donegal connnection

He won the Apprentice Derby for us with Paddy on him as well. Paddy is local to us in Letterkenny and we like to keep it local. Luke McAteer has rode for us as well,. This is a great course. All things being well he runs again at the Curragh on Tuesday and then we’ll put him away until next year. He’ll get his holidays as he doesn’t handle the all-weather. That’s our fourth winner this year and we’ve had six seconds and three or four thirds as well from six horses. It’s a nice enough strike rate and we’ve a couple of nice horses. They’ve been going well. We’re hoping to go to the sales now in Newmarket and stock up to keep the show going.

Blake wins October Handicap after stewards enquiry

To be honest, they nearly had to give it to him. You can't stop them to that degree, can you? He absolutely stopped him and he's a big, long-striding horse. If you're riding a bike and you're stopped, it's very hard to get going again that quickly. It's a nice pot to win and he'll run in the maiden hurdle at Down Royal on Saturday week. That's the plan. He jumps great and we're looking forward to him heading over hurdles.

Skippinandajumpin stays on best to land Leopardstown finale