Going - Yielding To Soft (Soft after first race). Overcast and breezy
Jackpot Pool - 3,000.00 Dividend - 750.00 Winning Units - 2.8. Placepot Pool - 32,394.96 Dividend - 21.70 Winning Units - 1043.95. Pick Six Pool - 10,000.00 Dividend - 7,000.00 Winning Units - .4. Days Aggregate - 101,222.00 Last Year 92,540.00
Odds-on Prince delivers under confident McNamara
It was a messy kind of a race but I suppose on form he should have been winning it,. For a messy race he got away with it. He jumped well on the whole, it wasn't ideally run and I think he'll be better in a better race with a proper gallop. He showed gears as well and it was a good enough performance. He has an entry in the Grade 1 at Leopardstown but I'd presume Henry's horse would go there and it would be very hard to beat him. There is also a 130 rated novice at Naas in February and he could potentially go there. He'll probably get an entry in the Triumph but is more likely to go to the Fred Winter. I don't see much point in going and taking on Henry's horse (Aspire Tower) in the Triumph. He's the best we have anyway but he has to get there too as well.
Trixie messes about but odds-on favourite Jazz still wins
Nash delighted with Brouder as Alohamora puts 2 wins back to back
We were delighted with her in Limerick,. I had her in the amateur race tomorrow at Punchestown and just with the weight here, 9-9 after Gavin's claim, that's what made me come here. She did it well and she stays great. I said after she won in Limerick that you couldn't go far enough and all she does is stay. The young lad is riding great. The horse in the first and her were two particularly good rides for a claimer. I don't know where we go with her now but there are loads of options for her. She could go either over hurdles or fences now that we know she jumps so well.
Charlie's big win puts Nolan and McNamara on cloud nine
That's brilliant. He was unlucky at Christmas and was unlucky with Thurles being called off too,. We stuck him in this beforehand thinking if he won in Thurles or Leopardstown he'd be in the handicap. When he got carried out in Leopardstown we said we'd take a chance. I'm just delighted for the horse to have come back because he was lost there for a while but we figured out what was wrong with him and got him right. I'm delighted for the lads that own him. He has a couple of new owners in him as well so I'm delighted for them. He goes on any ground but I think he's at a stage now where nicer ground suits him better. He spent many runs running on real heavy ground so I'd say at this stage he doesn't mind a bit of nicer ground. We might go to Leopardstown, he'll have an entry anyway in something at the big meeting. This is by far my biggest winner and it's brilliant. It's a great pot and it's great to have a horse like him. We don't have many of his calibre, even though he's only rated 123, he's a long way above what we have. It's great to be able to come here and be competitive and I'm delighted that our luck changed as well. He was due a turn.
One two for Mullins brings up Fairyhouse double for champion trainer
It was a good performance. Willie has done well with this lad and I had schooled him a good bit at home,. He put it together nicely and it takes a fair horse to come and win in Fairyhouse first time. Hopefully there will be more to come over fences than he showed over hurdles but he still ran to a solid level over hurdles all last year. What he done at the second last was probably why he was so good. When he made the mistake he got away from it quick. We don't get points for how well it looks, it's about how fast we get from A to B and he did that as adequate as you'd like him to do it today for a horse first time. He'll probably get further but the way he threw in a few of those jumps early on he'd be a nice two-mile chaser through the spring. Better ground might bring out more in him but that's still a solid performance on slow ground after plenty of rain today.
At The Acorn has "come of age"
He's come right, come of age, he was just a weak backward horse last year.
82/1 plus treble for Willie Mullins at Fairyhouse
He had been working well but we genuinely thought he'd need the run after being off for so long. He obviously had an injury so we were kind of minding him a little bit. Patrick said he did it well and handled the ground well. We think he can definitely improve off it. He said he wasn't loving it in behind. Hopefully he can go on to better things now.