Listowel Sun, 1st Jun, 2025  Magny Cours Conor Quirke and his wife Catherine, from Fermoy, own her and have been very good to me. They got in touch last year, sent me two two-year-olds this year, so I couldn’t thank them enough. Conor is now like a fella I know ten years. Catherine has a big love for horses and when this filly wasn’t making her €30,000 reserve last September, she dug her heels in to keep her, and how right she was. we thought a lot of her and we’ve always liked her. Scott McCullagh had ridden her work from the start so a big thanks to him, Ben (Coen) and Nathan Crosse who give me a dig out every week. I thought inexperience might get the better of her, but Ben said when he put his stick down, she put her head down and dug in. She will strengthen up and Ben said she would be suited to six furlongs on a straight track, or maybe seven with a bend. We had the Group 2 Airlie Stud Stakes in mind for her in July so that could be looked at now, to hopefully get blacktype. I have 20 horses in training, 11 two-year-olds and the yard recently came through from having a bug, which seems to be going around the country at the minute.

Punchestown Mon, 3rd Feb, 2025  Ethical Diamond it looked an ideal opportunity for Ethical Diamond: he got a freebee in front and jumped well. Paul (Townend) said he’s learning the whole time jumping-wise: that was a bit of an issue for him last year, so he seems to be enjoying it a bit more. Hopefully he can build on it. Better ground would definitely help him, but Paul said it’s not as bad as you would think.