Lyons' Blue Uluru makes pleasing start

She's very green and unseated him going to the start,. She's very quiet and honest at home but just came on her toes here. We knew she had ability to win one of these but thought maybe greenness and everything would have got her beat today. The second horse had a breeze-up and Mick's horse had a run. When she got down to the start she behaved professionally from the minute she got into the box. She was first out and it was copybook as he slotted back into a pocket and taught her her job. She was on the wrong lead all the way up the straight so she's going to improve plenty for it. I'm never worried about them losing on their first start as you need nearly two maidens in them before you step up. I don't think there is an abundance of winners races and that's a problem. This is for an American client and as always with fillies that are able to win their Irish maiden you start hunting black-type for them. Once you get that job done you can relax a bit. I'm delighted for Nicholas Varney and his partner. He is a jeweller in New York and this is their first horse with us. There is a winners race at the Curragh over six after Galway and that's probably where she'll go.

Boragh Steps forward nicely to score

She had a good run the first day and if she reproduced that she was entitled to win and she did thank God,. She came out of the Curragh well and it was a perfect race for her. It probably weaker than some maidens but it slotted in lovely. She travelled strongly, she'd probably be a bit keen over seven but over six she's fine. When someone came to me she went on again and she quickened up nicely.

Tom Dooley brings up his hat-trick

It was a bit of a question mark coming back so soon but obviously he's answered that question and it's great,. The six is probably a little bit on the sharp side for him but he seemed to be well on top at the end. Sean gave him an absolutely gorgeous ride. He had planned to be a little bit handier but he just took the view if he was just completely travelling to take his time and it worked out really well. He's a wonderful horse to do that for us and we'll have a look at something in Galway. The temptation is to go easy on him now but maybe that would be the unwise thing to do.

Captain puts it together to justify favouritism

It's good to get. Punters are sharper than me as I thought he was bad value at 5/2 favourite,. He's been a bit of a bookmakers friend the last few times. I suppose he's a bookmakers friend today as he (the Powers) owns him!. Robbie gave him a very good ride. He's not simple and we took the hood off today. He's always been a highly strung individual and wore the hood for a reason. We took it off him because he was nearly doing the job too well. When you were pressing button A you were getting button B. He battled it out well today and seems to like going around a bend. He's won twice here and twice at Leopardstown. It panned out well and we'll try and find another handicap for him. He wins one or two a year. Last year he won two and they took one off me. We'll try and win two again this year. People tell me he'll get seven but I'm not so sure.

Svizzera steps up for success

He's been running quite well over shorter. He's bred to go five or six but he obviously likes seven better,. That's ideal for him, fast ground over seven furlongs. He has plenty of speed but he just keeps going. He was just getting outpaced a bit at five and six. He first run was at Naas in very soft ground, which he didn't really like, and he was fourth to a good horse in Spirit Of Valor. So his first run was very good but it didn't go so well at Dundalk. He was a bit too keen in his early races so we dropped him down in distance. Now we have a hood on him to relax him and that's why he's stretching out to seven. He's not too bad. We'll look at a handicap, to begin with anyway, and see what rating he gets after that. He's always been a nice horse but it's just taken a while to get the key to him. The hood and blinkers. The hood is to settle him and the blinkers to make him concentrate. I don't run too many in the two together and I don't think you see the two together too many times either. The mixture works very well for him.

Martin happy with "lucky" week

He had a couple of nice efforts before and just didn't deliver. He was a bit unlucky the last day,. There weren't a lot of runners but it was still a good performance, I thought. You can do no more than win. This week has been lucky and it's been a good week. I didn't think he had a hard race there.  I'm not too worried about Galway with him but we'll have a look and I'll see how he is towards Friday. I wouldn't be too worried about it as he'd like that better ground there, hard ground, and Galway will be well watered. He's got the job done today and we've been a long time waiting for that.

De Bromhead and Smullen combine for a win