Curragh Tue, 31st Oct, 2023  Tiscommonknowledge JP and Noreen (McManus) were kind enough to give us two fillies last year,. 

Curragh Sat, 23rd Sep, 2023  One Look She's a nice filly and she's been a nice filly all year. I thought I would have run her earlier but it's just the way it worked out and she was just ready to run this week. I had her in the maiden at Down Royal on Monday. I think she's a nice filly and I gave her an (Irish) Guineas entry on Wednesday. I thought she was ready to start and good enough to be competitive. The plan was to track Frankie and see how we got on.

Curragh Sat, 23rd Sep, 2023  One Look She's a nice filly and she's been a nice filly all year. I thought I would have run her earlier but it's just the way it worked out and she was just ready to run this week. I had her in the maiden at Down Royal on Monday. I think she's a nice filly and I gave her an (Irish) Guineas entry on Wednesday. I thought she was ready to start and good enough to be competitive. The plan was to track Frankie and see how we got on.

Leopardstown Thu, 17th Aug, 2023  Celebrating Ethel We're delighted with that and Luke gave her a brilliant ride,. It was her first handicap the last day and he taught her plenty, she knew her job today. The big galloping track probably suits her and we dropped her back in trip. Luke said the last day that this was probably her trip and she might even go back to a mile. She's a game filly and she'll improve a lot from that again. She's named after a special woman as well, so it's great. She's named after Tom Stanley's mother Ethel, who died, so it's great for Tom and his father to see her winning today. Tom is friendly with the owner, Jim Browne, and he's in on a few horses with him. They breed them. It's great to have another winner for the Brownes as they are big supporters of ours. We've a good few coming up. I wasn't that happy with my horses early in the season, we had some rapeseed near us. Hopefully now they are coming into form. She's lightly raced and she's learning on the job. We fancied her tonight, Luke knew her from the last day. She's versatile and we'll pick something similar for her now. We'll have a bit of fun with her. In time she might even jump a hurdle. She ran in a bumper first time but she's sharpened up every time since. She got caught in heavy ground in the bumper.

Galway Sun, 6th Aug, 2023  Teed Up He has a serious appetite for racing and is an unbelievable horse to have in the yard. He loves it here. It might not have seemed that likely in the dip but as soon as he meets the rising ground, he grows another leg. He’s had a tough week and he could tell you what the traffic has been like coming up here this week! I’d imagine he’s earned a little break now and we can start planning for next year. Horses for courses, he loves it here and it’s a special place for the Mees. He’ll definitely target it again next year.

Galway Mon, 31st Jul, 2023  Teed Up The weather came for us today and probably didn’t suit a lot of others. He’s a proper little dinger of a horse and has such a good record around here — horses for courses and he loves coming back. The reason we bought him was the Ballybrit form and he’s paid off his purchase in spades. Ray (Barron) was very good on him. He hadn’t ridden for me before and I didn’t want to overload him with instructions. I just told him to take his time and if you get a gap on the hill make sure you go out and not in. He had a willing partner and it was great to see. It’s our summer marquee Festival and we don’t have too many social runners. They are all here with good chances and it’s going well.

Leopardstown Thu, 27th Jul, 2023  Brilliant Ryan was delighted with her and said to ride her more patiently the next day,. We'll go for something like the Debutante and ride her patiently rather than making use of her, he said he thought she would be better ridden that way. He said she's very genuine and she wanted to win, which is a big help.