Aintree Thu, 11th Apr, 2024  Its On The Line He’s got ability and Derek is good and persistent on him and gets everything out of him. We were thankful for the loose horses today as it meant he had a bit of company and he was able to stretch out and go away, he’s done it well in the finish. He takes his races very well, last season he ran at Cheltenham, Aintree and Punchestown so he has a great constitution. I think he’ll stay hunter chasing as it’s great to be able to come to these meetings and have a horse with a big chance. Fingers crossed he keeps doing the business.

Naas Sat, 10th Feb, 2024  Its On The Line Its On The Line isn't good for the heart but there’s loads of ability in there, it's just a matter of coaxing it out of him. He looked a sitting duck for the fast-finishing horse (Billaway), but picked up and went again. He’s a tough cookie and hopefully cheek pieces might help for the big day (at Cheltenham) the next day. He was second there last year and will go there again.

Fairyhouse Wed, 24th Jan, 2024  Farmers Lodge I think we have him four years and he hasn’t been simple - he’s had lots of little niggles. We ran him in a maiden hurdle in Navan and then there was a two-year gap and he ran twice in Thurles in two good races as it turned out. He’s a natural to jump and the only question mark I had today was would he handle the heavy ground as he’d never run on it but our gallop is deep Wexford sand so he’d no trouble getting through it. It was a very ordinary race and he was entitled to do that on his hurdle form. We’ll get a mark and go for a handicap somewhere. He’ll pay his way and will be a fun horse. Michael said he could go up in trip. His jumping is good enough for two (miles) and he could go two and a half on better ground.

Leopardstown Fri, 29th Dec, 2023  Grangeclare West I didn’t expect that now — I thought he would run well, but that was a top race. Paul was worried about him pulling too hard and he’d want to be as fit as he is because he just pulled his arms out for the three miles. To do that, on that ground and win like that going away was a huge performance. His jumping was excellent. He just came out of Paul’s hands at the first fence and from then on Paul was just trying to settle him back. He got him back jumping normally. He’s just a natural chaser.

Leopardstown Fri, 29th Dec, 2023  Grangeclare West I didn't expect that now - I thought he would run well, but that was a top race. Paul was worried about him pulling too hard and he'd want to be as fit as he is because he just pulled his arms out for the three miles. To do that, on that ground, and win like that going away was a huge performance. His jumping was excellent. He just came out of Paul's hands at the first fence and from then on Paul was just trying to settle him back. He got him back jumping normally. He's just a natural chaser. He might go for the Brown Advisory and Fact To File might go for the Turners. We'll see, it is a nice problem to have. We might come back here to the Dublin Racing Festival first. I'm delighted to win a Grade 1 at Leopardstown over Christmas.

Leopardstown Fri, 29th Dec, 2023  Grangeclare West I didn’t expect that now – I thought he would run well, but that was a top race. Paul was worried about him pulling too hard and he’d want to be as fit as he is because he just pulled his arms out for the three miles. To do that, on that ground and win like that going away was a huge performance. His jumping was excellent. He just came out of Paul’s hands at the first fence and from then on Paul was just trying to settle him back. He got him back jumping normally. He’s just a natural chaser.