Going - Good To Firm. Overcast
Jackpot Pool - €71,415.30 Dividend - €2,968.10 Winning Units - 16.8. Placepot Pool - €28,797.56 Dividend - €377.10 Winning Units - 53.45. Days Aggregate - €337,823.00 Last Year
Mutadaffeq wins opener for Cromwell & Lordan
I ran him in this race last year but he got trapped on the rail and never got a run. He's been in good old nick and obviously he won the last day, over fences in Clonmel. I thought he had an each-way chance coming here and I'm delighted with that. I thought he was going to be well beat and then thought he was going to win well and then he nearly got beat again!
Harrington trained juvenile makes winning debut
you'd have to be delighted with that. A few of our two-year-olds have been a little disappointing over the last few days but that's great. We're really happy with her, she's very uncomplicated, and she was well bought as she was only £30,000. She's a lovely filly.
Ballydoyle 1-2 as runner-up drops whip
she's tough and hardy. She stays well and she's a sister to Kew Gardens. We thought that these were going to be Oaks fillies and they'll probably turn up in a trial next. They will love going a mile-and-a-half.
Classic winner Keane on the mark with Strong Johnson
this horse is after improving a lot and we actually gave him an entry for the Rockingham last week so we hope he'll get in off bottom weight in that. He's a fine horse and he's progressed from three. We'd a winner here last year at the Guineas meeting so it's great to get another one and things are going well. For us we have a decent yard of horses with 18 in. We're planning to build a new barn and we're getting there. We have a few nice horses to run and we're looking forward to this fella. That was his first time on fast ground but we knew his full-sister handled it. Colin gave him a nice, calm, easy ride.
Fahey bags first Premier Handicap with Edification
itt's a great pot to land and my first premier handicap. Well Set Up won a couple of Grade 3 hurdles for me last season but he's my biggest winner on the Flat so far. It was a brilliant ride and that's the way he has to be produced. Gavin timed it to absolute perfection. He's been unlucky a few times last year, through no-one's fault. Today, on a big galloping track, he was able to produce him last minute and didn't have to look for too many gaps. Gavin has ridden three times for me and we've had two winners. He has his homework done before the race. This horse jumps out slow and loves finding trouble. We tried before to force him, and try to keep him out of trouble but it didn't work.
Ballydoyle 4-timer as Magic Wand pleases 'the handicapper'
she's a lovely mare; we had her in at Ascot but we were afraid of the ground getting soft and didn't want to wait. It was a lovely race for her here and it's nice to get her started back. She could go to the Eclipse or the Pretty Polly. She's an unbelievable mare. She hadn't run over a mile since her debut. She has a lot of class, she's a great mare and I'm delighted with her. Up to now she has travelled a lot but that was all cancelled so she's been kind of waiting there a while so that's why we just wanted to get her out. She loves that nice fast ground, she doesn't like soft ground.
'O'Brien & Sons' in business as Peaceful wins 1,000 Guineas
Donnacha (O'Brien) loved her when he won on her in Thurles last year and then she went to Newmarket and couldn't walk a yard in the heavy ground but still kept fighting and wasn't beaten far at the line. That's the sign of a really good filly, she just wouldn't lie down. She's obviously very good. She loves the ground, skipped along, and is very uncomplicated. We always thought she'd stay a lot further than a mile. Epsom has to be a possible, the lads will decide, but it has to be a possible for all those fillies. We knew he had nice fillies. They are Galileo fillies and we are just so lucky to have them. They are beautifully-bred, big, rangy, scopey fillies and they get better and better.
