Head on top in Down Royal opener

Rock comes good for Lambe and Behan

It is fantastic for the owner, Richard (Behan) is a great supporter. He puts a lot of money into the game. She has been very frustrating and maybe she has just come right. She has been disappointing on the whole but it is great to win for Richard. It is great to get it at my local track. We'll take small steps again with her and hopefully we can get her in again. She was fourth in Naas and second in Navan, she has been a little frustrating because she did win a couple in England. I just said to Declan that the conformation of the track might not suit but she will come home well as she runs well at Navan and Naas. We had a good draw and the draw didn't work out. Declan was cool and he played his cards late and he put her head in front where it counts on the post. He's one of the top-class pilots and he didn't panic.

Glengarra shows his fortitude in Down Royal

He is a horse that is mentally immature and he has progressed with every run. i told his owners the first day that whatever he does today it will be better and I said the same the second day. I'd say a good horse caught him the last day over six and he was crying out for seven. He just does what he has to do in front. Hopefully he will keep coming forward, I think he is a progressive horse. He is a progressive horse and it (Group 2 Futurity entry) might come a bit soon for him. He's a well-bred horse, he's a brother of Tabdeed and his mother is a sister to Walk In The Park. He's bred to be a decent horse.

Geological bounces back to form for a 15th success

The horses have been so out of form since October nearly. Bad hay and we couldn't get them right. I've just been concentrating on getting them healthy again. Nikita came in last week just to sit up on him and he worked really well. She got on with him at home. What a servant, he's unreal!. Hopefully we will pick up a few more as he has dropped down to a really workable mark. He won off 98 last August. He'll keep going until he tells me he needs a break! . She kept him balanced and she didn't panic. When she couldn't make it early, she didn't panic. I was worried myself because it looked like he wasn't going early. Maybe he is just getting clever and he is saving himself at the start for the finish but he kicked clear at the end. We'll crack on now and get the whole yard back in form.

Reality proves the Master again at Down Royal

Well backed Society does the business

I worked him on Tuesday at the Curragh and I was pretty confident that he would win. I phoned the boys and I think they took the 7/1 this morning. Job done!. We were going to hold off for Galway on Tuesday but I feared he might not get in and I'm only 40 minutes up the road from here. He will go for a three mile handicap hurdle on Thursday at Galway off 113 and I'm pretty confident he is better than that over hurdles. A step up to those marathon trips will be in his favour. If he doesn't get in there, he will go on the Sunday for a 0-75 over two miles on the flat. He is (a tough sort), people were knocking him on his last two runs - I had to run him quickly in Gowran Park because of the penalty and then I took him to Ayr and he didn't do anything right. If you took those two runs out of it, he has been consistent. Everybody involved in this horse, that is the first horse they have been involved in. Subsequently they have gone and bought their own personal horses since. Sorcha is very good off the front, a very good rider in general and this is only her first season on the flat. You'd be surprised it is her first season. She is down to 7lb now but she easily claims off bottom weight and is strong and does what she is told.

Ginsburg gets important win

She stayed on well. She was disappointing two runs back and then ran well last week in Killarney from a bad draw. Con Kennedy, a local vet, and his wife own her and bred her and we are just loving getting a win for the mare, at least that is my job done now! She has bred a winner. She is as game as anything, she might not be speedy but she is all heart. The 7lb probably made a difference, Cian was very cool on her because they went very fast and he was a long ways off them starting off but he didn't panic. He got a lovely split down the inner. We might even enter her up next week.