Going - Heavy. Overcast, threat of showers
Jackpot Pool - 2,659.98 Dividend - 1,862.00 Winning Units - .36. Partial Carry Over of 1,720.05 to Cork on Thursday 21st March. Placepot Pool - 45,255.27 Dividend - 5.60 Winning Units - 5617.84. Partial Carry Over of 45,255.27 to No CourseDays Aggregate - 326,151.29 Last Year 301,306.11
Murray and AMO Racing unleash another winning juvenile
David said he’s a very nice horse with loads of improvement. Hopefully he can build on this and maybe go to Royal Ascot. Whether he’ll have a run in the meantime we’ll have to wait and see. He rolled around a bit on the ground and will improve on better ground. He’s a very nice horse at home and we think a good bit of him. The further he went the stronger he looked. We have about 15 to 20 juveniles to run this year, not all for AMO.
Real Force lives up to his name at Headquarters
Procrastinate doesn't put off winning
I was hoping he’d run a nice race coming here. He’s a horse that we’ve liked and didn’t run last year. Delighted that he was able to do that on debut. We came here knowing that he’d be fit, but wouldn’t be sharp. I’m happy the way he travelled through the race and picked up. Hopefully there will be plenty of improvement to come when the penny drops. I didn’t envisage him being out the first day, but he’d been training well in the spring. I think he’ll be fairly versatile ground wise. I thought that he’d handle that ground without wanting it. If I can find a winners’ race that would be nice and, if not, he may have to run in something like the Tetrarch. I think he’ll get a mile.
Money Dancer grabs the spoils for Meade and Keane
She behaved herself better here than she does at home. She’s very bouncy and you have to be wary about her, but she’s always showed us plenty. We got her at the backend of last year and the couple of bits of work that she’s done we’ve liked her. We hadn’t really dipped her because she was so bouncy and I wasn’t sure what she would find, but she found plenty. Colin thought she could go another furlong. We’ll try and go for a Listed race with her and see how we get on. The two-year-old (Rowdy Yeats) ran well in the first race. He was just a little bit weak in the last furlong which you would kind of expect. He surprised us how forward he came and, everything we asked him to do, he did it. He was probably beaten by a good horse.
McDonogh steers home Brilliant in Group 3 for O'Brien
I think she probably had the best form in the race and, on her first run of the year, I’m delighted with her. She’d been working nicely and is a hardy filly. It’s a big call for three-year-olds against older horses on that ground at this time of the year. She’ll step up and a mile is good for her. That will be her trial and she’ll go into one of the Guineas now after that. She might end up going to Newmarket and back here. She doesn’t really want that ground but she went in it. A mile is probably her trip and she’s a sister to Alcohol Free. Ryan is heading to Australia for the Golden Slipper tomorrow and we didn’t want him dropping down too low this time of the year. It’s a long year and he has a long trip.
Lincoln double under consideration for Chazzesmee
He did it well off a lay-off. We’ll see how he is during the week and he’s in the English Lincoln on Saturday. A 5lb penalty would get him into it. He’s never been short of ability, and we ironed out a few kinks in him. We brought him over to Saratoga last year and he got a stone bruise and couldn’t run on the day. Then when he was coming back he got stuck in some airport in Holland or Belgium for four days as a vet was giving out about some paperwork. We just ran out of time to run him. He broke his pelvis in Dundalk as a three-year-old, so that’s why he was off for a year.
Kennedy conjures winning surge from Global Energy
We knew he was fit as he had a good run in the Up The Yard challenge race at Punchestown and I think he’s got a bit faster. He’s won over a mile and a quarter and a bit further, but he’s improved with age. I think he can run over anything from a mile up to a mile and three. I don’t think he’s ground dependent, and I can play with the trip. He’s a real nice horse to look forward to. I’m sorry for Robbie (Colgan), but I wanted to take weight off him.
Merisi Diamond shines in Curragh again
He handles the ground. He’s a fine, big, strong horse who is a five-year-old now and after maturing. Ronan said he felt a stronger horse than he rode last October. Hopefully we’ll get him out again if there is an opportunity there and we’ll see what the handicapper says. I’d prefer to be coming back to a long, straight track like this as he’s such a big horse.