Going - Standard. Overcast
Jackpot Pool - 1,097.41 Not Won. Carried forward to Gowran Park on Saturday 12th March. Placepot Pool - 34,700.77 Dividend - 1,979.84 Winning Units - 12.2. Days Aggregate - 166,961.54 Last Year 158,633.00
Inishmot Prince upholds form with Collective Power
He just struggles a bit to go with them early on - it was the same the last day, but when he gets balanced and gets a bit of daylight he picks up well. It probably suits him over five when they go that quick as they are coming back to him in the straight. Six will probably be better for him but you'd never know when he gets the hang of it more. I didn't think we'd get into one of these again, I thought we might get a bit more than 4lb for the last day so it was great. I hadn't intended running him back so soon but when this opportunity came up we said we'd take it. We'll see how he is after it but he'll handle the grass as well and hopefully he'll keep on improving.
Satin Snake lands claimer for O'Leary
Linus Larrabee on song in Dundalk
He's a horse we don't have a lot of faith in, he's talented but in and out. It's nice to win with him today,. He was on a going day, sometimes he can get left but he jumped really quick today. He was just in the humour of it today, I don't know what he'll be like the next day.
Sheehy earns plaudits for ride on Dances With Stars
Drakensberg scales the peak again
That's great, he bounced back. The horses are running well and obviously he's after coming back into a bit of good order. The lads stuck with him, he wasn't shining for a while, and that's a big help. They are a happy bunch of lads now. He slipped down the handicap which obviously helped a bit. We'll get him home and see where he is, at least he ran well so away we go.
Agatino gets the mile best of all
We thought a bit of him last year but he just wasn't strong enough. He's strong enough now this year and he's done what we expected him to do last year. It's great to do that today. He'll maybe stay a bit further. He'll go on anything, I'd say, and we'll see what the handicapper does now, maybe that will decide our route. It looked like a nice maiden. When I was looking through it, I felt that all the fancied ones might not get the trip and maybe they didn't. Hopefully he'll go forward from here and we'll see what mark he gets.
O'Brien doubles up with San Andreas
Bunyan eyes big pots for Elzaam Blue
He did that well again. The main worry we had coming up with him, we don't doubt his ability, but it was lack of experience against good, seasoned handicappers as that's always going to put you on the back foot straight away. We had seen a huge improvement in him since the last day and he's going to improve a ton again from this tonight. He's a smart horse going forward. He won his maiden first time without seeing the surface before and he's run there tonight against seasoned handicappers and they are not easy to beat at the best of times. Even when you have your three runs and a handicap mark they aren't easy to beat, most horses get found wanting in their first handicap but this lad coasted around tonight. He has a big future. He'll run beforehand to get a bit more experience into him but there are a couple of big pots on Guineas and Derby weekend, a couple of very nice handicaps, that I think he's made for. It depends on what happens with him later on but he'd be a horse that I would have part of my team for Dubai next year. He's definitely a horse for that area.