Going - Yielding to Soft. Overcast and windy
Trifecta Not Won. Pool of 3,061.08 carried forward to Curragh on Sunday 11th September. Jackpot Pool - 5,000.00 Dividend - 535.70 Winning Units - 7. Placepot Pool - 20,557.66 Dividend - 101.50 Winning Units - 151.81. Days Aggregate - 368,827.99 (8 races). Last Year 200,909.00 (7 races).
Weld filly wins Curragh opener
Madhmoonah did it nicely and is a good filly. It isn't often one gets beaten at Killarney (when turned over having gone 1.01 in-running) and comes back to win at the Curragh!. The ease in ground helped her and the CL Weld Stakes here in a few weeks time will be her next race.
Born To Sea impresses in Listed debut win
I did my best to tell everybody that he wasn't expected to win first time and not to be expecting too much!. His brother (Sea The Stars) was beaten first time out and we don't send them out to win first time - it's about getting a nice experience. The first run is about education. To win a Listed race first time is pretty good. He's more precocious then his brother and could have been out earlier - as early as April. We deliberately waited with him until July when the plan was to run here on Oaks weekend but he got sore shins the week before the race. Here he is, much later than he should have been, and this wasn't an ideal day as he doesn't like the wind much. However, he has the ability to overcome these things and Johnny said the pace was slow and he did well to quicken off that pace. He won comfortably and was quite green, which is understandable.
Power storms to Group 1 glory
I felt I shouldn't have been beaten on Power the last day and I rode him with more confidence today. He had a hard race when beaten last day but I think it actually brought him on a bit. He's a good, strong colt, trains well at home and was in good form coming here.
Irish Leger dead-heats as Gosden doubles up
Walsh and Oxx win Amateur Derby
Minsk is a nice horse and I gave him a bit of time over the summer as he is a big ‘rangey' devil. We took our time and let him mature and he has been improving steadily. He stays well and should get better as he gets older. He won nicely there and while it is hard to know where to go next, I'll be surprised if he wasn't bought to go jumping.
Acclaimed wins September Handicap
Dahlia defies top weight
Monarch shows his class