After race at Punchestown Sat, 29th Apr, 2023 (1st)  One of the girls in the (Galaxy Racing) syndicate said to me 'it's unbelievable' and I said 'it is unbelievable',. He is such an easy horse for me to do anything with. It made sense to come for the hurdle, even though it was strong, with his mark. Ben gave him a beautiful ride and as I said at Cheltenham he just loves galloping. People give out about horse racing and say it's cruel and all that rubbish. He should be the poster boy for racing because he loves doing it and on top of that he's very good. He's been a horse of a lifetime for these boys and for me. I don't want it to end but it has to end sometimes. I've been banging on about the American Grand National since Leopardstown. He's 148 over fences now, two-mile-five on good ground so why not. It would be some trip and he's paid for it anyway. We thought he might win a race and get to Cheltenham in October for the guys but to have done what he's done is crazy. What do you do to top Cheltenham now? He's probably not good enough to win graded races in this country. John C McConnell

After race at Leopardstown Thu, 29th Dec, 2022 (1st)  It's all down to the lads in the syndicate that wanted to run because I was getting very watery about the ground. It seemed to make no difference to him,. He jumped great, Ben was always happy that he was going the right pace and it's great to have a guy with a brain and a clock in his head. I was never worried he was going too fast because Ben is such a good rider. On his handicap mark, compared to his hurdle mark, he was entitled to run very well. When he won in Cheltenham this was always the plan to come here. We thought we'd get nice ground here and then it started to rain. We got a little bit worried but what a horse. Mr handicapper is going to have his say now! He's going to get into the hurdle race in Cheltenham off the mark he's on now and probably the chase as well so we can do what we want and he doesn't owe us anything now. For some of these guys having a Leopardstown winner is as good if not better than having a Cheltenham winner as they've been coming here all their life. It's brilliant. He's really easy to train and I don't think we need to run him again. If we want to have a go at a real big one we'll leave him on whatever mark he's going to get. It's just a decision about whether to go hurdling or chasing. I didn't think he was as good over fences but he was good there today, to jump around Leopardstown like that. I said to Ben 'save your long one for when you need it' but he didn't really need any of them. John C McConnell