Killarney Sat, 9th May, 2026  Pride Of Place Charlie knows him well, won on him last year in Tipperary and the horse had a nice blow out in the charity race at Punchestown last week, where he was ridden by Kate O'Leary, who works with us. He jumped well and loves that trip. He'll probably get eight or 10 pounds for winning today but Charlie takes 5lb off, which helps. . Charlie is with me every Monday and it was a clever ride today, as he did everything that was asked of him.

Fairyhouse Sun, 5th Apr, 2026  Five Star Getaway It was great. I know there was a bit of carnage but he would have stayed on and who knows what would have happened. . We tried to qualify him for Aintree, to give Josh a spin over the National fences, but it didn’t work out. This is a good second best. . He’s had good form and came up against a good horse the last day (Asian Master). . He was a decent horse back in the day for Christian Williams and Mark Scott. They gave him to us to let Josh get a lot of experience on him and it’s great. . Josh has only had a few rides on the track and he’s ridden a bumper winner. 

Wexford Tue, 17th Mar, 2026  Catchabird She's been knocking on the door in handicaps and she just couldn't get her day. We played around in trip a bit, but I think the two miles is her trip. We probably made a bit too much use of her before and we said we'd take our time today and see if she'd come home and she did. She got a very good ride from Aidan. She was getting the 8lb from the bumper winners today and we thought she was entitled to win. She was race fit and had been running all winter. She is a home bred and is a full-sister to Getabird, so it was important to get a win with her. She'll keep tipping away once the ground is on the slow side, she wouldn't handle any quick ground. She's in at Navan on Saturday and might turn up there with a penalty. That's my second winner of the season and I had my first one last year. I've only the two in training at the moment and they've both won now.

Leopardstown Tue, 3rd Mar, 2026  Ealu She’s a lovely mare. I’d say she would have won the first day at Boulta,. In fairness Pius (Collins, owner) was offered a good bit of money and he said he’d keep her. She’s always been very nice. She’ll go for a black-type bumper, she’ll probably go to Aintree. I’d say she’ll even be better on a bit better ground. She’s a nice mare to look forward to. Derek was very impressed with her, she’s a lovely filly. She’s always shown that, she showed it all last year as well.

Leopardstown Sun, 1st Feb, 2026  Backmersackme That was great. Sean said he was a bit flat to the boards early doors and he let him find his rhythm jumping and he was able to sneak into it at the third last. It was pretty clear sailing from there. He’s improved. I was saying to Sean beforehand that there was a handicap hurdle in Navan last year, the Proudstown, and the winner was Mark Fahey’s horse (Flicker Of Hope) who is going for the Irish National. We were second and Oscar’s Brother was third, so we were the only horse that hadn’t gone and done something over fences yet. That was strong form and it’s all come together now. I suppose over the trip the slower ground helped, definitely. I think ground-wise he’s fairly versatile. He had a tongue-tie on today as well so that probably helped with the slower ground. The plan was the National Hunt Chase over 3m5f at Cheltenham. He was 125 today and that’s 145 so that should be still on the cards. He’ll have a bit more weight now but we’ve a great pot behind us so we can’t complain.

Leopardstown Sun, 28th Dec, 2025  Bentraghhill I was expecting that. I was amazed that Patrick didn't make it back up from Limerick to ride him here,. He had shown me plenty at home and I was very happy.

Leopardstown Sun, 28th Dec, 2025  Bentraghhill I was expecting that. I was amazed that Patrick didn't make it back up from Limerick to ride him here,. He had shown me plenty at home and I was very happy.