Going - Soft, yielding in places. Overcast
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Insayshable another for Lyons & Keane
It was a grand performance and he has a great temperament for the job. I would have liked to start him off over a mile but we were adamant that he wanted the mile-and-a-quarter and he's after doing that well. We've his full-sister at home, a two-year-old, and we had Ainippe (half-sister). If he didn't run accordingly today we would have been worried as he's up there with the nice ones in the yard. He was always a nice horse and Emmet (McNamara) gave him a lovely educational spin in Naas. He's grown over the winter and I think he's still on the leg. We'd hope there is more improvement in him. He's just a nice horse. I thought he did it well and Colin gave him a lovely ride. He was crying to come out here today. The reason he didn't go to Naas was because it was heavy. He wants better ground but he doesn't want extremes. Homer wants us to think big and aim big but the horse will tell us.
Bengala flies home to deny Butterfly
She's a nice filly. She was working well and I'm not surprised she won. She was a bit raw and we knew she'd need an educational run. That was the number one thing to get her in between horses and teach her a bit and then see with a flick of the whip what she could do. She finished well and I'm not surprised she showed some promise as she was indicating it at home. The ground is a bit sticky but it doesn't seem to bother her and she's probably impervious to the ground. I think she'll go on good ground. She could come down in trip, maybe. There is a Listed race at Navan in 18 days time, the Salsabil Stakes, so we'll see how she comes out of the race. It might be a possibility. She was bought in the Wildenstein dispersal and I had her for a few weeks before that. Mr Evans bought her and thankfully sent her back to me. I wasn't doing anything with her, just hacking around, but you could see she was really athletic - a tall leggy filly. Even the little bit I saw of her you could recommend her to people. I gave her a good reference and fortunately the man that bought her sent her to me. She has a good pedigree. I had one filly ten years ago for him before. She won at Dundalk and had an injury after that. He wouldn't normally have anything over here. She might be one for American in due course.
Ace Smullen gets Diamonds home in front
It was a very good ride by Pat - he just got there. We'll look for another similar race for him. I thought he'd run a good race and he ran accordingly.
Rose takes the feature for Weld & Smullen
It was a good positive performance from a very consistent filly. She battled hard to win her stakes race in Cork and she did the same again there. She's a filly we hope to move on now. She's won twice at stakes level, and been multiple stakes placed, so next time we'll look to win a group race with her. Please God we'll have her for the year and I'll keep an open mind for different group races during the year but I just wanted to win another stakes with her today. I toyed with running in the group race at Naas last Sunday but the ground was just too heavy. She never wants it firm or never wants it heavy. It's lovely ground here today, much better ground than a lot of people expected coming. I'd say yielding is probably an accurate description of it and that's her ground. I had her in the Gladness on Sunday and the decision was whether to run in it or today and we went for today. Probably at the seven she was going easier than at the line so I'd say a mile is as far as she wants to go. She'll come on. All of mine at the moment are probably just a few weeks off. It's a long year as it runs to November this year.
Point proves her worth at Leopardstown
We'll probably have to pull her out again now next Tuesday at Tipperary, that was the plan. We'll see how we get on and see how she comes out of the race and see how much the handicapper gives her. She was taking a step back in class today and hopefully she can step up now. She looks a bigger stronger filly this year so we're hoping she has improved. I thought Gary gave her a fantastic ride. He went there when he needed to go and he did everything right on her. Gary has done a lot of work on her so I'm delighted for him.
Likeable Whisper now 3 from 3 at Foxrock
He's marvellous. He was just getting tired near the line as it's hard work out there. He's just been schooling the last month because we were going to go back over hurdles as he has a rating of 114 over hurdles. This year we'll see if we can win a handicap hurdle with him and win a novice chase. He's a great old servant. He's big enough to jump a fence, in fact he fences his hurdles so I think he might be better at that than he is over hurdles. He's a big horse and he's an inch taller than he was last year. I was thinking he might be anchored but I suppose he's a bigger horse this year. Being drawn one was a huge thing there. With the way he likes to run it was a blessing. It was a good performance. He's no star but when they try it's half the battle and he tries.
Torcedor impresses on debut for Harrington
He was very good. He's had a wind-op since he came to me from David's. I've been ticking along with him and he was sort of sent to me to go jumping. I just hadn't had time to get enough schooling into him but he might go jumping as well as stay on the Flat. I suppose we'll look at that sort of distance, 1m 6f, and see what happens. I'm delighted with him. He just probably likes that bit of give in the ground to get the best out of him. I didn't really expect that, he surprised me. I thought he'd run well but I didn't think we could possibly beat Forgotten Rules or Twilight Payment. He quickened up really well so it's great. I'll probably keep him to the Flat now and see how we get on. If he comes out of this alright we'll see where we go. I've no plans and he's not entered up in anything. I'd say he'll probably go anywhere there's a bit of ease in the ground.
