Going - Good To Yielding. Overcast, threat of showers
Jackpot Pool - €18,863.72 Dividend - €2,200.70 Winning Units - 6. Placepot Pool - €51,925.10 Dividend - €42.90 Winning Units - 845.55. Pick Six Pool - €68,809.47 Not Won. Carried forward to Fairyhouse on Monday 17th April. Days Aggregate - €355,539.00 Last Year €381,594.00
Tudor City prevails in Fairyhouse
He was due that. What would have happened at the last nobody can say but he deserved a bit of fortune. We'll see how he comes out of this before deciding where we go next.
Friday lights up Easter Sunday
He’s a grand horse. I thought he’d run well but I thought if he was fourth or fifth it would have been a good run. He should be up to winning again hopefully.
Augusta Kate reigns supreme in Fairyhouse
She's very tough and unassuming. She was on and off it and wasn't jumping the best out of the whole group I thought. As soon as I gave her a squeeze after the third last she jostled for a bit of position and came alive under me. I kind of knew I had her (Let's Dance) beat but I wasn't sure after the jump. She gave herself a bit of a fright in Cheltenham. She was cleverer than me today anyway. She really stays. God knows what is left in her still.
Russell partners winner for longtime friend
It’s great to win a nice pot like that. Jumping is his forte and he’s probably a real two-miler looking at that. He handles any ground bar heavy.
'All fair in love and war' for Road To Respect!
I think Noel has brought him on incredibly well this year. His run in Cheltenham was fantastic. He is very closely related to Road To Riches so I'd say clearly good ground is the key to him and he got good ground in Cheltenham and he got good ground here today. Yorkhill is clearly the superior horse but we are very happy to win one. We thought about running him in the National. He worked on Wednesday and we just thought he might need another week. If he’d worked better we might have run him in the National but it’s all worked out great. The other horse (Yorkhill) did it all wrong and we benefited from that. He’s obviously a very good horse. We were hoping Willie’s horse would do that and he did. All is fair in love and war!. I think he’s a proper Grade One horse anyway. He was electric at Cheltenham and he’s proved it. I think our fella will improve and get further. I don’t know if he’ll go to Punchestown. We’ll have to discuss it with Eddie and Michael (O’Leary) but that more than likely will be it for this season. He’s a horse that doesn’t take a lot of work, and I think the less you do with him the better he is.
Killaro Boy routs the field in Fairyhouse
I was surprised that he won but turning for home I knew nothing was going to catch him. That's the best that he's jumped so far. He won his point-to-point on good ground but has not run on it since.
Red Jack brings up Meade's double
He looks a good horse and is ground versatile. That will probably be it for this season and he’ll jump hurdles next year. He just got a setback at the wrong time. He’d a sore wither that stopped my routine and made me rush a bit in the end. Other than that everything has gone very smoothly from the first day he came into the yard.
