Fairyhouse Sat, 21st Feb, 2026  One Big Boum It was a good performance. It’s a great race to win, because Tommy Carberry was my hero when I was a young fella growing up,. He looked to be in control and he stretched out well to the line. He’s an improving horse and the blinkers certainly make a difference to him. He’s effective on that ground and it looks very necessary. He could go to Punchestown for the two-and-a-half mile opportunity race but it depends on ground. We’ll see how he is, there is no such thing as an easy race on very heavy ground. We’ll take our time with him as he likes to be fresh.

Fairyhouse Sat, 21st Feb, 2026  One Big Boum It was a good performance. It’s a great race to win, because Tommy Carberry was my hero when I was a young fella growing up,. He looked to be in control and he stretched out well to the line. He’s an improving horse and the blinkers certainly make a difference to him. He’s effective on that ground and it looks very necessary. He could go to Punchestown for the two-and-a-half mile opportunity race but it depends on ground. We’ll see how he is, there is no such thing as an easy race on very heavy ground. We’ll take our time with him as he likes to be fresh.

Punchestown Sun, 15th Feb, 2026  Ksar Fatal He won well. He’s just a green horse, and it’s his first time over hurdles. He hasn’t run for nine months. He was working with the slow horse that won the National Trial! I don’t know what that tells you. He’s an exciting horse. He’ll have two more runs over hurdles this year and then we’ll go jumping a fence. He’s very good to jump. He’s by a very good sire, Buck’s Boum. I think what we’re looking at is the Grade 2 in Fairyhouse in seven weeks’ time. If everything went well there, he could come back to Punchestown for the 2m4f Grade 1. That’ll be him then under wraps until he goes jumping a fence next year. Willie’s horse was second in Cork, and the winner came out and won a Grade 3 in Gowran yesterday. If it was a month ago you might be thinking about going to Cheltenham but for a horse that is going chasing, I don’t think we need to be going there. There are some lovely targets at home.

Navan Sat, 17th Jan, 2026  One Big Boum First-time blinkers made a big help because we felt he just about was doing enough, that's all, before we put the blinkers on him. He seems to be able to cope with soft to heavy and he stretched away. He's big enough to jump a fence, so I'm sure we will end up over fences maybe sooner rather than later. His jumping was immaculate today, so we are very pleased. He ran at Christmas, so I'm sure it will be three to four weeks before we will ask him to go again. This place can test a horse, so you wouldn't want to go back too soon. He certainly wouldn't go on summer ground, so he will be out again before the season comes to an end.

Navan Sat, 17th Jan, 2026  One Big Boum First-time blinkers made a big help because we felt he just about was doing enough, that's all, before we put the blinkers on him. He seems to be able to cope with soft to heavy and he stretched away. He's big enough to jump a fence, so I'm sure we will end up over fences maybe sooner rather than later. His jumping was immaculate today, so we are very pleased. He ran at Christmas, so I'm sure it will be three to four weeks before we will ask him to go again. This place can test a horse, so you wouldn't want to go back too soon. He certainly wouldn't go on summer ground, so he will be out again before the season comes to an end.

Naas Fri, 9th Jan, 2026  Flicker Of Hope He was brilliant and Donagh gave him a super ride. He’s a joy to have around the place and jumps brilliant. He takes lengths out of everything over his fences, and he seems to be going the right way. I don’t know where we are going to do next. We’ll make a plan in the next week. We brought him over to Cheltenham last year and he was a bit disappointing. There are plenty of races at home, but we’ll see.

Fairyhouse Fri, 21st Nov, 2025  Flicker Of Hope He was tough and Donagh gave him a super ride. He jumped well and did everything right. He stayed well over hurdles, but they didn’t go much of a gallop there today and he did show a nice turn of foot. I’m not sure where we go now and we might jump in with the big boys in a graded race and see how we get on.

Fairyhouse Fri, 21st Nov, 2025  Flicker Of Hope He was tough and Donagh gave him a super ride. He jumped well and did everything right. He stayed well over hurdles, but they didn’t go much of a gallop there today and he did show a nice turn of foot. I’m not sure where we go now and we might jump in with the big boys in a graded race and see how we get on.