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Punchestown 2024
Punchestown 2024
Punchestown Results Sat, 29th Apr, 2023
Going - Good to Yielding, yielding in places X-country - Good, good to yielding in places. Fine
Jackpot Pool - 3,978.13 Dividend - 586.20 Winning Units - 4.19. Placepot Pool - 65,851.61 Dividend - 856.20 Winning Units - 47.4. Days Aggregate - 587,476.56 Last Year 493,672.03
Tote Trifecta- 1556.31
CSF- 431.78
Tricast- 1598.18
Tote Trifecta- 551.46
CSF- 39.74
Tricast- 327.21
Aione just holds on in long-distance handicap
It's brilliant for Danny, he's been riding out of his skin all season. Rich (Ricci) has been very patient with the horse as he missed a lot of time through injury.
Tote Trifecta- 240.24
CSF- 36.99
Echoes In Rain powers home under Townend
She was very impressive. Once again Paul just rode her with complete confidence, he's transferring his confidence through to his horses and they are on fire with it,. He came through around the last bend knowing Brandy Love was going to go left. He went by her like she wasn't there. She's improving all the time. She's hard on herself but she's just about learning to settle now. We'll probably go back on the Flat with her but Flat racing does upset her a little bit, it gets her too geed up for this job. We'll see and have a good chat with the owners. She's done the job here today and that's what counts. She got very wound up in Cheltenham but I think she's maturing and some year she might be good enough to go back there. She'll be aimed at it next year anyway.
Tote Trifecta- 4070.75
CSF- 106.60
Tricast- 4602.26
Tote Trifecta- 13.86
CSF- 6.71
Tricast- 8.05
We bought her in France from Yannick Fouin and he was full of her when he had her. We were lucky enough to get her,. You think you are buying nice horses all the time but this filly looks to be a cut above, for a filly to go through the whole season and come out at every festival. Christmas, the Dublin Racing festival and to get hammered there, back to Cheltenham and back here today, that's incredible for a four-year-old filly. She'll need a long break now after that to recover. She's been very good to us. I'm looking forward to maybe the Mares Hurdle next year. Normally those juveniles work into staying hurdlers which would be the Mares Hurdle or the Stayers Hurdle but I'm just wondering could she be a Champion Hurdle filly in two years time. She has huge reserves and she's sound as a pound. Half the battle of being a good horse is being sound. We've so many talented horses but they're not sound and they miss a year. Look at the likes of Monkfish and Asterion Forlonge this week, if they were sound they could win a lot more but it's a high level of training and racing and it's tough. In any sport the top players pick up injuries and careers are done because they pick up injuries. Racing is no different.
Tote Trifecta-
CSF- 171.59
Tricast- 6060.37
Seddon rounds off fabulous four-timer
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.
Tote Trifecta- 4659.69
CSF- 437.35
Crawfords team up to win final day bumper
He's a smashing horse. By Milan out of a Flemensfirth mare, he's a half-brother to a three-mile winner. He has a load of stamina. He liked the ground but I think he'll handle softer ground. I've said all week, to win a bumper here you have to be a graded horse and I'm pretty sure he is. There is a wee bit left there too, he was idling a bit and just doing it too easy. He's a proper horse for next year.
Tote Trifecta- 697.41
CSF- 22.47