Going - Good to Yielding, yielding in places. Raining
Jackpot Pool - €10,000.02 Dividend - €1,612.10 Winning Units - 4.04. Placepot Pool - €23,669.70 Dividend - €6.50 Winning Units - 2513.09. Days Aggregate - €131,993.59 (8 races). Last Year €164,757.45 (7 races).
Townend scores on Mullins' shorty at Cork
Gilligan capitalises on final day with 3lb claim
O'Mara back amongst the winners at Cork
He won easily, isn't a bad horse and I was hopeful,. . We'll see what happens from here but he is a seven-year-old now so we might find a novice hurdle for him in Killarney. Hopefully he keeps going forward and everything will be fine. We just have him and a few more horses ticking away at the moment and don't have too many to run.
Onefortheditch gives further cause for cheer
I was wondering whether to drop her in distance for this 2m2f race but I've won this race for the same owners in the past and also finished second in it. . This was my plan after winning in Kilbeggan and while the second and third-placed horses ran stinkers since, I can only worry about my own mare. She came back in mighty form so I really fancied her today. I trained her dam and both mares have been my only two winners on the racecourse as I do mostly breaking and pre-training horses. Her owners, the Sheehans from Ballyduff, have been brilliant to me and Backinthere, the dam, was a great mare for me. There's a big gang supporting us today and I've to thank Jimmy Mangan, Liam Burke and Micheal Griffin as I use their gallops sometimes.
McNamara shines on Say It So
I thought it was an exceptional ride by Conor as he is a very difficult horse. He has become very slow in coming out of starting stalls and even starting his race today, he just doesn't want to know about it for the first mile. It was perseverance, without being too hard on him, that has paid off and he stays really well. I thought the extra quarter of a mile would suit but he has become so roguey at the start of his races. He flies home every day though and having run well here in the past, we came back as it suits him; it is a matter of picking the right tracks for him. Going to Wexford in two days time was also a thought of ours but with the parade ring being where it is, it would be the wrong track. The 10-member Limerick-based (Hurling Mad) syndicate is headed by Eoin Kirby and they are great enthusiasts.
Gabriel Ranger off the mark for Murphy
We got him over the line at last. He had a little break, I think that is his level and I don't know what the handicapper will do with him now.
Duke back in winner's enclosure after Cork bumper
