Dundalk Fri, 11th Apr, 2025  Albion Princess He certainly did earn his fee!. The work she has done at home all the time was so much better than a class of 0-60. Today, they didn't get near her. I said 'get as far ahead of them as you can' and he did. I think he was 25 lengths in front at one stage. I was afraid she wouldn't hold on purely because if she saw another horse, she probably might change her mind. She was for sale yesterday or this morning at 100 pounds or 100 euro with a head collar. When asked how much the head-collar was worth, I told my friend this afternoon 95 euro!. If she hadn't won, I wasn't going to train her. She has caused me more thoughts up and down and inside out. In the end, it didn't matter because a winner is a winner. The fact that she has won, it is brilliant.

Gowran Park Wed, 2nd Apr, 2025  Top Of The Pops He was off for a good while and had his niggling problems so we campaigned him for Dundalk last year, but it didn’t suit him. It was a bit quick for him on Sunday (at Leopardstown), so we said we’d come here hoping there was a bit of cut in the ground and thankfully there was. I told him to try and go out and make it and he dictated from the front. When he won for Mark Johnston as a two-year-old that is the way he was trained, so we went back to them tactics. It was a winnable mark and, to be honest, we were going to pull the plug on him if he wasn’t in the first six.