After race at Leopardstown Sat, 4th Feb, 2023 (1st)  We were expecting that. He was a course and distance winner at Christmas and never came out of a hack canter,. He hasn't missed a beat since then and we were very confident today. He's a quick horse and we didn't think he'd mind the ground. We only gave him one entry at Cheltenham in the Ballymore because we have the other horse for the Supreme (Marine Nationale). It couldn't have gone better, he was maybe a fraction keen over the first couple but then he got a lovely lead off Nigel's horse. He never missed a beat jumping, he got a lovely blow into him turning in. He hit the front probably plenty early and he was idling in front. I think we are still only scratching the surface with this guy. The big plus with him is that he's seven years of age. We bought him as a four-year-old from one of the point-to-point guys and gave him a run in a bumper. Then he had a few issues. It's a big advantage for these horses to have that age on their side. He's bombproof and you could see him walking around beforehand like he was at a kid's gymkhana. Marine is the same, the two of them are brilliant. We are a small operation, we have 25 horses, and we've had two entries in Grade 1s this season and won them both. He's not slow, I won the Albert Bartlett before with Martello Tower and it is quite hard on novices. I prefer the Ballymore, he could drop back to the Supreme if something happens to the other guy but I would need to supplement him. Barry Connell

After race at Leopardstown Thu, 29th Dec, 2022 (1st)  We've hit the bar here before and I actually never rode a winner here so that's brilliant, everyone wants to have a winner at Leopardstown at Christmas,. We brought three here, the first two we fancied and they ran well but this guy was the banker of the week. He's gone in and we're thrilled. He beat Landrake in his bumper and the third and fourth have both won so for a Wexford bumper it was very strong. He's all stamina so I knew this two-and-a-half miles today, up the hill, would be right up his street. He went at the first (in Fairyhouse) and it can happen any novice. He was a little careful, screwed and pitched on landing. He's a good jumper, you can see there today. When he needed to shorten he did and when he had a stride he was good and long. He's six, rising seven, he actually fractured a sesamoid in his bumper at the Drinmore meeting and that was a year off. We were thinking of going chasing but I think we'll have to revise that plan now. I don't know how strong the race was but he couldn't have been any more impressive. I thought coming into today we might be looking at something like the Michael Purell, which is a Grade 3 in Thurles, but I'm going to make an entry for the two-mile-six Grade 1 at the Dublin Racing Festival. On the back of that he's entitled to an entry. There would have been a lynching party if he got beat. The plan was to sit behind the fancied ones but he can do that at home, when you go to jump off he lurches forward. He said that was what happen Barry Connell

After race at Wexford Mon, 31st Oct, 2022 (1st)  He has been off the track for two years. He injured his sesamoid on his first run when he was second. He had been working well recently and we were going to run him over hurdles, but we said we'd go for a bumper because his work was good enough to win one. He probably wasn't in love with the heavy conditions here. He is a classy horse and you'd see him maybe being a horse for Leopardstown at Christmas. We will look at keeping him for Leopardstown and going over hurdles, but we will see. Barry Connell