O'Leary's Embittered wins Naas maiden, Royal Bond next

he was a decent bumper horse and he jumped well. He did well to win as I thought he’d want the race. He was a bit keen in his bumpers but he settled well today. We’ve put a hood on him and spent a lot of time trying to teach him to relax. JJ gave him a lovely ride.

Fishery Lane success for Surin

Luke gave her a good positive ride. We knew she would stay well, she had a run and she was fit. She’s a good mare and has improved from last year and grown a lot. It was a good performance. She’s a different mare than last year. She is stronger and needed her first couple of runs. I’m not sure where we will go now but she will be aimed at those mares’ hurdle races. She’ll have a few easy weeks now and then we’ll see what happens.

Cilaos Emery returns with Poplar Square Chase win

that was very impressive for a horse with such little experience. Ornua is obviously a Grade 1 winner and we were getting a lot of weight. He wasn’t going to be easy to place this year with just one run as a novice. I’m not sure what the plan is now but he has a lot of ability and will probably be kept to two miles for the moment. He’s only had two runs over fences and maybe it would be best to take baby steps and get more experience into him. Today was an ideal race with just four runners and they were well spread out. His jumping has always been good.

Kilfenora leads home '2-1' for McManus in Brown Lad

last year was a mess and he’s (Kilfenora) a far better horses over hurdles than he is chasing and we sent him back hurdling and he ran a blinder at Punchestown (in May). This was the first decent staying hurdle to target and thankfully he’s done it. He’ll go further and the Pertemps (Hurdle at Cheltenham in March) is an obvious long term target for him.

Rothwell on the mark with 20/1 outsider

she won a maiden hurdle back in the summer and then had disappointed us a few times. She lost her confidence over fences and Annette that rides her out at home and looks after her has done a super job. We’ve done a good bit of schooling over hurdles with her just to get her confidence back. The plan was to ride her handy coming here today and then when I thought there was so much pace in the race I said to Sean going out to take your time and try and get a little bit of confidence and get her coming home well. That might get her into some of the good mares’ handicap chases later in the year.

McManus, Walsh & Mullins bag Naas doubles

Flyer four-timer for 'Aussie' Mullins

O'Keeffe has claim reduced following Naas double