Going - Yielding, yielding to soft in places. Fine
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Doyle lavish in her praise for Flanagan
It was a beautiful ride. They went too fast and the jockey nipped into the inside at the top of the hill and that probably won it for him. Jessie's mare (Magic Of Light) was just staying on again after the last, but Sean had done everything, jumped beautifully to have enough up his sleeve after the last. For a small mare she has that bounce over fences and she is as brave as a lion. We'll tip away over fences for the time being. She ran at Sligo the last day because there were just five runners and it was a case of picking up prizemoney for her but she is a good ground mare and we'll be looking at Thurles and Punchestown with her but she is more a summer mare. She has now won three in the calendar year and for a mare who cost 500 euro at Goresbridge as a foal, she has given us great fun. She is a pleasure to train and that was the most beautiful ride - the jockey won that, nobody else.
Close Shave lives up to name in beginners
He avoided all the trouble and there was a lot of it in the race and he did it well and stays well. He is built for the game and the step up in trip helped and I'm delighted with him. We'll see where we go with him now.
Harmony lands odds in mares maiden
She has been very promising in bumpers and we were hoping that she would transfer that ability to hurdle races and she looks to have. The second horse (Tara Dylan) was a good flat horse and I'd be happy enough with our mare to have as little experience of racing and to come up against the likes of that, and beat them. It looks good and she can only improve from that and we'll keep her to the mares' novice route. She was very green and it's hard to make your own running the first day and she made one or two mistakes but there lot's of improvement in her and I'm looking forward to her in the novice mares' ranks.
Turasoir in a three-way thriller
We were beaten a nose yesterday (with Nora Batt at Navan) and I was sure she (Turasoir) was beaten again. I bought her last year from Pat Tallis and I'll have to give him a few quid now as that was the deal we've done, so I owe him a few pounds now!. She's a lovely mare and we've had great fun with her and Paul Cawley comes and rides out one day a week with me and I'm delighted for him. It's his first winner for me and he is a nice chap but weight is his problem. She has a good pedigree and we'll go to Dundalk during the winter.
Fragile Monksland back in winners enclosure
It was hard work and Sean said he never travelled at all and the ground was a bit quick for him. He has had plenty problems over the years and when the ground is any way good, he was knocking the top off it and needs soft ground to be at his best. He is a ten-year-old now and has been around a while, and that is part of it too but today was the plan. His pedigree is all stamina and he does stay three miles. I don't know where he is going to go and you couldn't say he is the horse he once was but we'll peg along and try and keep him sound and run him wherever he has a chance. I would say at some stage we could try him over fences in one of those big races like the Irish National. There might also be a conditions chase he could run into as well. We'll see how the season goes along but every race we win with him is a bonus as he hasn't been easy to keep sound.
Strong stayer Carrigready opens account
He was second in a bumper first-time out and he wants a trip but is a slow learner! He's a half-brother to Mr Picotee and we'll see what the boss (son Vincent) says but I suppose he'll go for another handicap hurdle next.
Doyle doubles up with newcomer in bumper
There's a funny story behind this horse as I was in Deauville last summer and the three-year-olds can't get into the Sale unless they breeze. This horse came up the straight and planted halfway up his breeze when he saw the stands, and everyone started to laugh. But he was actually only broken two weeks and they (previous owners) thought they could put him through but he was broken quickly in ten days. He stopped-dead going up the straight and they didn't even show his breeze when he was going through the ring. But he is a Poliglote, the French Champion sire, and he only cost 6,000. Today he was a little green, hung and didn't settle but didn't do as much wrong today as the first time he was on a racecourse and I'm delighted. I took a chance buying him but he is Poliglote at the end of the day and has so much to learn still. We may have to find owners for him now as he is for sale and I'd obviously like to hold on to him - there aren't many Poliglotes around.
