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Martin (Brassil) always had a lot of faith in the horse, he's some trainer isn't he?. He was running over two miles and he wasn't struggling too much overt that trip, so we were always wondering if he got three miles could he do something like this. I was planning to hold on to a bit, I think he likes to be ridden like that. It is a long way around on this outside track, there's a long way off the bend to the second-last. I just wanted to hang on and save a bit to come home and see what happened then. It's unbelievable! It is unreal and I owe a big thank you to Sean and Bernardine (Mulryan, owners), Paddy Aspell, Martin and all the lads there. These big rides are hard to come by. Martin has between 15 and 20 horses, he had Panda Boy who was fifth in an Irish Grand National and Longhouse Poet. To do that with a small team of horses is unbelievable. He was going to be carrying top weight in a lot of those handicaps so we just felt we might as well dip our toe in the water and see how much we find. There were only five runners and the first two in the betting had hard races in the Gold Cup. If there was a bit of a chink in the armour I thought we could hopefully exploit that. I didn't think we'd win but I thought we wouldn't be far away. They quickened from the back of the fourth last and instead of going with them he hunted away behind them. JJ is a cool customer, he took the shortest way around and the horse jumped well, everything fell into place. The Mulryans are great suppo Martin Brassil, trainer

A steeplechase for five years old and upwards
Weights - 5-y-o 11st 8lbs 6-y-o and up 11st 10lbs Mares allowed 7lbs