Going - Heavy, Soft in places. (Races 1-5 to go off 10 minutes later, Races 6&7 to go off 5 minutes later). Dry and bright 4th last fence omitted from all chases due to ground conditions.
Jackpot Pool - €490.55 Dividend - €343.30 Winning Units - 1. Placepot Pool - €41,330.17 Dividend - €28.50 Winning Units - 1013.56. Days Aggregate - €132,182.00 Last Year €149,344.00
Icario gains overdue win
He's been trying a long time so he deserves that. I'd say he'll go chasing.
Delcros and Torrens off the mark at Down Royal
He did it nicely, he's not a horse that would enjoy that sort of ground. Now he's going to go and jump a fence. He needs better ground,. That's my first winner, it took a long time! I took out the licence a year ago and we had a couple of horses placed. I came from France to Ireland and stayed in Ireland. I was a jockey in France and moved to Ireland in 1977 and I worked for Darkie Prendergast. Then I went to Dessie Hughes when Dessie started off - I worked with him for 27 years. I rode for Dessie and did bits and pieces that could be done in a racing yard. I was head man there and left in 2010. We have seven horses in including a couple of young horses. We are based in Donegal unfortunately! . You have to work with the facilities you have and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. We are just outside Donegal Town.
Young Paddymc toughs it out well
It was a good, tough performance. He's all about chasing that fellow, that was the plan from day one so it is lovely to get a hurdle with him before we go chasing with him next year. The plan was to make all as he looks like he wants every bit of three miles - two six was never going to be a struggle anyway. He's starting to get the hang of things.
Crosshue lands quick hat-trick for Doyle
It's been a massive week from Leopardstown Friday week ago to Wexford to here. We were lucky this was called off (on Saturday) as we couldn't have run in two places on the one day,. He's a fabulous horse when he's on form. He had a couple of good bumper runs and won three times over hurdles for me and then he just lost his way. We didn't know what was wrong with him but we gave him a break and he just started coming back to himself slowly. We are absolutely delighted. Hopefully there will be a race in Aintree for him, it would be great to have a runner over there. It will be one of the novice chases, we'll keep him a novice for the meantime. If that works out we'll go on to Punchestown for something similar. Trip and ground aren't a problem to him. Jumping is a big key to him and in fairness JJ (Slevin) was brilliant on him in Leopardstown but Harley does a lot of work and is closely related to Niall (Heffernan, owner) and he's brilliant on him too. I usually only get three wins a year so I am ahead of my target!
Beach bounces back with easy win at Down Royal
It looked an ideal race to go for. Conditions suited him so it was the right race to go for,. I'd say he remembered the quick(er) ground in Leopardstown early on but the further he got the better he jumped. That could be it for the year unless Punchestown came up very soft. He'll not go to Fairyhouse.
Miracle makes his mark on the racecourse
Tintangle completes another good day for Elliott
She's a nice mare, she's a mare for next year. She's a big backward mare but she will be okay,. She's a fine big mare and she'll come on a lot from that. She'll be a big chaser.
