Roscommon Mon, 4th Jul, 2022  Well Polly That's my first winner as a trainer, I had a few point-to-point winners over the years but that's my first winner on the track. She's a funny old lady and Darragh (O'Keeffe) was the key to her today, to be fair. We put the cheekpieces on her the last day and they just changed her jumping, she jumped so much slicker today. She has plenty of ability but it's just a matter of getting it out of her. I'm delighted to get it. The plan was to go over fences after this, if she didn't do it today, but we might give her another crack at the same thing again. We'll enjoy today anyway.

Roscommon Tue, 14th Jun, 2022  Sole Pretender I'm delighted with him. We got a bit of a shock at the bottom of the straight but he still went and did his job,. John Ryan's horse (Ferdia) isn't a bad horse. Our lad will come on from that again and we'll see where we go now. He might go for the Grimes Hurdle or maybe to Galway for the novice chase on the Thursday. It wasn't as easy as you'd expect but he still got it done. He's still learning over fences and it was grand to have a horse rattle down over them with him there as the fences are a bit bigger here than in Ballinrobe. He won his race snugly in the end. You'd be thinking that a race is average but when you go and try to win them they are not that average. We're happy out with him.

Punchestown Thu, 28th Apr, 2022  Ballyboker Bridge we're going to retire him now, that's the end for him. Hopefully I get another one that's as good as him. He's not the best horse, he's not a Big Shu but wears his heart on his sleeve. He's been a horse of a lifetime, a great horse, he's a bit cracked but he's not bad in his own way. When Enda's horse (Bolger, Shady Operator) came out it was a penalty kick. Singing Banjo is great but he's loaded up with the weight and Vital Island was probably a bit tired from Tuesday - he had a great chance.