Downpatrick Sun, 17th Jun, 2018  Carrie Des Champs We liked her and she came on a good bit from the last day. We'll go for a winners' mares' bumper in Perth in six or seven weeks time. The owner is from Scotland so we are going to go back over there with her. The runner-up is grand, she wants a trip.

Downpatrick Sun, 17th Jun, 2018  Count Simon Davy is lucky for me! He doesn't do much wrong anyway!. It's great for the Sloans who are big supporters of the yard. He had the form to win but he just jumped his hurdles too carefully, that's why I put the cheek-pieces on today. He won well when he got the gap. There is improvement over hurdles (to come) and he could be a horse to go back on the Flat.

Downpatrick Sun, 17th Jun, 2018  Ravenhill Those owners (Try Ravenhill Syndicate) are from all over the north of Ireland so it's great for them to get a winner,. The other one (Turbo) probably made it a bit easier when he made a mistake (at the last) but in fairness he (Ravenhill) wasn't beaten. That's more his trip and we'll keep him going over the summer, he likes the good ground.

Downpatrick Sat, 16th Jun, 2018  Cecil Corbett I thought he got there a bit too soon but he pulled out plenty at the end. He wins every year and keeps the show on the road. He gets that trip and enjoys that ground.

Fairyhouse Fri, 15th Jun, 2018  Loving A Boom he was entitled to win it on his few runs, and he appreciated a bit of nicer ground. Chris said he just didn’t get home over a bit longer at Sligo the last day. I had him about three weeks before he ran in Sligo.

Kilbeggan Tue, 5th Jun, 2018  Osco Mosco She probably wants further and we are going to go jumping fences with her as well,. I thought the race suited. She'll probably come on from the run, as we missed a bit of time with a few of ours, but in fairness she was tough and she stayed galloping to the very end. That wasn't really the plan but Jack said they were going very steady so he went on and he thought he might just test the other horse's jumping as it wasn't jumping great. He used his own head, his own initiative, and did the right thing there. It's a nice race to win with her.

Down Royal Fri, 25th May, 2018  Moratorium He's a big galloping horse so it's great. He'll go home now, he's a big winter horse. Lisa (O'Neill) is a great girl - she keeps them balanced and keeps them running. A double on the day. As everyone knows we didn't run any for two weeks and I think we are three or four days back running horses. We hit the crossbar with a few but we are back and rolling now. A few of the horses were coughing and we had to do the right thing by them. A lot of them are blowing up and needing the runs but we'll get back rolling. We've a quiet weekend but we'll get going next week.