Galway Thu, 29th Jul, 2021  Farout It was a very brave performance by the winner. He did it the hard way and took the race by the scruff of the neck. Brian just gave him a breather about halfway and it's a big improvement from him. He's going to go up to graded company now. He's a fine horse and I'm very happy with him. He's improving, settling and doing everything right which can sometimes be very hard for Flat horses to do. Tax For Max ran a great race. Paul did a great job settling him and the way it worked out he was probably a little bit too far back. He'll improve, on his last couple of runs he was far too free. The way he settled today will bode well for the future with him. At least he's learning something. They are both horses that could be graded horses. We'll probably have to geld Tax For Max at some stage, when the ground gets softer we'll geld him and then bring him back in the spring.

Leopardstown Thu, 17th Jun, 2021  Blazing Star She’s after going on every sort of ground and she’s after getting a winning bracket which is most important. She has plenty of early closing entries but after watching that Ger thinks that we may pull stumps for a little bit and give her a break.

Leopardstown Thu, 3rd Jun, 2021  Juncture We're very happy with that,. She was green the first day as you'd expect and we gave her a two week break. She enjoyed herself and we were a little worried that she might be a little stuffy for it. Hopefully she'll improve again for that. That trip is ideal and she'll get a little bit further. That was the first box ticked, we'll see where we go now as it's going to be a long year with her.

Curragh Wed, 2nd Jun, 2021  Sonaiyla She’s a great filly, she’s tough and she’s hardy. I think she’s in better form than ever this year. She missed the break the last day and did great work in the finish from an unpromising position. I’m delighted she came today and showed what she’s been showing us this spring. I’ll have to talk to the owners but she has won a Group 3 now so we will step up in grade. She’s in the Diamond Jubilee which might not be an outrageous target. She’s Group 1 placed and the Haydock Sprint and the Flying Five are other race to consider. We’ll achieve what we can for the year and I’d say she will be covered next year. She’s won on good to firm and she’s won on heavy. I’d say she has great preference for this track and has never been out of the frame here. It’s my first Group winner after a lot of places.

Curragh Wed, 2nd Jun, 2021  Dr Zempf He’s a lovely horse and is after doing that very well. He took it in very well beforehand and during the race he was very professional. Shane Lyons, representing

Killarney Tue, 11th May, 2021  Fall For A Kiss She had a few bits of pieces of decent form, she had come down the ratings and Colin was class on her. He rode her very cold and she latched on it and won well in the end. She might go to the July Sales.

Killarney Tue, 11th May, 2021  Angel's Trumpet This is the first horse to run in these colours and Anthony Rogers and my wife Ber have him between them and are hoping to raise more funds for Cancer Trials - Pat Smullen's set-up. I put up a year's training fee last year and we had a horse, but it didn't work out. In fairness to Anthony Rogers, of Airlie Stud, he came to me and said he had this horse with Willie (McCreery) which would suit. I'm delighted for them and all this prize money goes to the Trials. Ryan is a very very good rider, is with me full-time and is very strong and it would be great to get another winner to get his claim down as that's nearly his lowest weight. I think the horse will improve for that and we'll go for something similar next.

Cork Sat, 8th May, 2021  Farout It was a good performance and he learned plenty from Fairyhouse. I rode him in Fairyhouse and he just didn't jump that day but you'd forgive him because he was coming off the flat and it wasn't like he was a point-to-pointer. He stepped up nicely on that today and hopefully will be a nice one to look forward and handled that ground well. Willie will have a chat with the owners and see what they want to do, but you'd imagine he'll be well able to win through the summer.

Navan Sat, 27th Mar, 2021  Linda Barrett She was disappointing the first day and I don’t think the trip was the problem that day — nothing really happened. It was probably the first time out blues. Hopefully she will step up off that and we can find a winners’ race or a three-year-old handicap. She handled the ground and had been working okay on it in the spring. You wouldn’t think it as she is not the biggest filly in the world. She should get six (furlongs) eventually. She wasn’t killing herself the last 100 yards as she was flicking her ears.