Going - Heavy. Overcast with rain
Jackpot Pool - 10,716.09 Dividend - 1,710.40 Winning Units - 5.52. Placepot Pool - 22,533.25 Dividend - 165.50 Winning Units - 95.32. Days Aggregate - 192,669.63 Last Year 171,454.72
Dschingis shows Desire to score in Limerick
Testing ground in Limerick
One And Only another for McKiernan
This morning I wondered should we run the horse on this bottomless ground, but he galloped through it. We left all the headgear off him today and I thought he did it very genuinely. There weren't many of our horses right this season and he wasn't 100 per cent either and at Fairyhouse the last day, a horse fell in front of him and he was pulled up. He is a fine big horse and is athletic looking.
Panjandrum exerts his influence in Limerick
Home comforts work out well for Kings Hill
He is a good horse, but didn't get the rub of the green for a while and he had surgery on a kissing spine. Since he started jumping fences, he is a different horse and he is entitled to win today's race with his run in the Supreme (Novices Hurdle of 2024). He will be better on better ground and his time of year is coming, so we'll place him as we go by. I would have loved him to go to Cheltenham, but one of his owners preferred to stay home with him and, with the slow year we've had, the horses are only coming back to form now. We're better off to get a winner here. Jack is at home with us three days a week, is now with Oliver McKiernan and other local trainers, but it is hard for these guys who are attached to small yards.
In-form Rocky's Howya brings up his hat-trick
Nolans Rocco shades a thrilling finish
Bois D'angos takes the nightcap for McConnell and Buckley