Tipperary Wed, 14th May, 2025  Bitofajokelike . The owners (The Jokers Partnership) are here in good numbers and have had a few disappointments, so they deserve that. I’m sure they’ll enjoy themselves tonight!. I ride out three days for Gordon (Elliott), Peter Fahey a couple of days and Ger O’Leary as well as Eric when I can.

Killarney Mon, 12th May, 2025  My Gaffer Danny is never too far away riding for me and we go back a long way. He comes in every Wednesday during the summer but I leave him alone for the winter as he is very busy. Danny initially rode for me on the Flat as a 16-year-old and afterwards rang me when he became quiet at one stage of his career. He told me to give him two rides at Listowel one year, both won and we have become great friends. As long as he is riding and I’m training, I’ll give him rides. He is a lovely kid.

Leopardstown Mon, 3rd Mar, 2025  Barnahash Primrose That was great. It’s been a stop-start kind of season with small niggly things all the way along,. Hopefully, they are starting to come right now. It’s great to win. We probably had an extra man on her back with Michael O’Sullivan, he came into me a lot. It’s just an awful tragedy. There were a lot of things went wrong for her in the race. At the start she nearly went out through the wing. She’s an honest mare. We can draw a line through Christmas. She just gets a little bit flustered and she got flustered down at the start and they got away on her. Limerick was very tacky and I don’t think she handled it. She won a bumper around there but it was normal loose heavy ground at Christmas and they go through it. Hopefully, we can keep her in one piece. Her mother (Barnahash Rose) won the Shannon Spray in Limerick (Grade 3, 2016), but it may come a bit quick in ten days time, we’ll see. Maybe she could go to Fairyhouse for the Grade 1, would she be good enough?. We’ll try and get to Limerick if we can, but it might be coming a bit quick. We’ll see how she comes out of it.

Clonmel Thu, 13th Feb, 2025  My Gaffer He promised a lot and when we put him in big handicaps he got crowded out of them as he is small but he is a brilliant little jumper. Hopefully he won't get rated too highly now and while he won't be going to Cheltenham or anything, he could be a summer national-type of horse. We'll keep him to country tracks. He is a well-bred horse and his mother finished second in Cheltenham. Dara's brother Oran had ridden for me in the past but this was his first ride for me. I was looking for a claimer and after he won a point-to-point last Sunday, Tom Keating (winning point-to-point handler) texted me on his number. He gave the horse a great ride.