Going - Sprint: good, good to yielding in places. Round: yielding, good to yielding in places. Overcast
Jackpot Pool - €162.75 Not Won. Carried forward to Killarney on Tuesday 7th July. Placepot Pool - €24,042.59 Dividend - €5,685.70 Winning Units - 2.96. Days Aggregate - €180,699.13 (7 races). Last Year (8 races).
Condon doing well with his juveniles
Her first race has thrown up plenty of winners and at Navan (subsequently) she may have got involved a bit early and she was vulnerable to closers. She had taken that very well though and didn't hold a grudge against us and Chris (Hayes) said she was very professional and he thought she could go on and have a nice future and that six furlongs would be fine. Getting black-type along the way would be nice and she is very straightforward and uncomplicated. I'm pleased for Colm Griffin, from Meath, who is a new owner to the yard and that's a lovely start. She was well bought by Mick Donohoe and she has the size as well so she has a future.
Minaun gives de Bromhead his first Group winner
I'm delighted with her, we've always really liked her and she is a lovely filly. Cormac Farrell recommended her for us back in March. I'm delighted for her owner Steve McCarthy and it is his and my first Group winner on the flat; he previously had Aerclub with us and we replaced him with this lady and she looks an able deputy. Hopefully she will keep progressing and Chris (Hayes) really liked her. She will definitely stay further and is from a really good Loder family. She has a Moyglare entry and is growing and maturing all the time so we won't be in a mad panic anywhere.
Sonaiyla secures Stakes success
we ran against her once at Leopardstown last year and I was very impressed by her. Ruairi O'Coileain, of Ennistown Stud, was my first outside owner and when I saw this filly catalogued at the sales, I told him 'I'd like you to buy this filly'. To be fair to him he did and I'm delighted to get today's result and I'd like to say a special thanks to Ruairi. She is a very well bred filly and has Sinndar's pedigree and has now won her Stakes race so we'll try and get a Group race next.
Starlite Dancer provides Hayes with third Cork winner
he had a couple of good runs last year and it's good to see him get his head in front. He probably wasn't badly in. He ran well at Galway last year and could go for something similar again.
965/1 four-timer for Chris Hayes at Cork
She deserved to win a maiden as she ran into a couple of good fillies last year. It was a messy enough run race at Gowran on her last run and she stepped forward for it a bit today. We'll probably look for some black-type now.
Snow wins the Munster Oaks for Lordan
Reserve Rayounpour and Farragher win Cork Derby
