Going - Good, good to firm in places. Sunny
Jackpot Pool - 715.82 Dividend - 501.00 Winning Units - .18. Partial Carry Over of 586.87 to Gowran Park on Wednesday 7th May. Placepot Pool - 24,140.31 Dividend - 483.70 Winning Units - 34.97. Days Aggregate - 263,321.30 Last Year 117,290.86
Big plans for Oh Cecilia
That was super and she is a good filly. I ran her the first day (of the season) on heavy ground where she was just touched off and performed so well just on ability. She is a fast filly who wants today's fast ground to show her speed and gears. I thought she won cosily enough at the line and would benefit from a stronger pace. We have two runs now and I would love to have a filly for Royal Ascot. She wants fast ground, she is fast and is improving so we will consider the Queen Mary Stakes.
City Of Memphis looks smart on debut
We bought her off Katie Walsh at the breeze-ups last year and just waited with her. We haven't looked much, but she has plenty of ability and, everything she does, she does with ease. We were confident coming here that she would run a good race and I'm delighted she has won. When you go to the breeze-up sale, you pay your money and take your chance. We've been lucky with Alan (O'Flynn, owner). He asked me to buy him fillies in the past few years and we got Purple Lily the first year and now this one, so he has two nice fillies. We'll take her home now, and aim to go up the grades, hoping to get black-type.
Marnane has Royal Hunt Cup in mind for Tokenomics
He is lovely and we think he is a Royal Hunt Cup horse. The plan was to come here, then to the Curragh for a mile handicap on Guineas weekend and then the Hunt Cup. I really want to get him to the Hunt Cup, so we'll see. We won the race with Settle For Bay in the past and he is a very similar horse. We wanted to see what he was like on the ground today and the flat track, so has come through that well. This horse was selling (from the trainer's MRC International syndicate) but didn't pass the vetting so didn't make as much as anticipated. Niall (Molloy, owner) stepped in and bought him to keep him with us, so I'm delighted for him and his family, who have been huge supporters of ours.
First Instinct delivers for the Haggas/Hayes axis
Lee at double on Ascending in Cork Derby
Port Louis there for Hassett when he needs him
Dawn Spirit enjoys herself in Cork
Zahrann much too good in nightcap at Cork