Henri Matisse shades a thrilling opener

He's a lovely-bred horse, I think Joseph (O'Brien, Cadogan) liked his horse as well. He'll improve a lot. He was babyish at home, mentally. Ryan nursed him as much as he could and gave him a lovely ride. He'll be very happy if he wants to step up to seven too, he's a lovely horse I'd say.

Arizona Blaze shows a willing attitude in Marble Hill

The plan was to drop him out and come from behind, but there was no pace early on and he had choice but to go on. He stuck at it very well. He's still not the finished article, there is more improvement in him between now and the Coventry. He was an early horse, but we gave him an easy time of it after that to give him time to grow into himself. The last day he got beat here he wouldn't have been 110 per cent. He had a right little bit of a blow after that race so he'll come on again.

Mitbaahy avails of a trademark Spencer ride

Moore doubles up on Candleford

He runs well fresh and he looked really well today. The girl who rides him at home all the time, Alison, has done a brilliant job. She's ridden him for years and knows him inside out. She knows when he's ready and she said he was today, so we were hopeful. He wants fast ground and hopefully we're coming into a period of time where we might get some fast ground now. We'll see how he is when he gets home. Even though he's an older horse bringing him across the water is a trip and he'll need a few weeks and then William will map something out for him. Barnane Stud (owner) are really top-class breeders and these are the type of people that you like to have horses for. They have very nice mares and go to the best stallions, you then get a chance of breeding a nice horse and that's obviously what we're all trying to get a hold of.

Rosallion leads home Hannon one-two in Irish 2,000 Guineas

I thought he (Haatem) would be hard beat here today, so I knew when I got to him he had just done everything right for himself and he has dragged me to the line, so he has had to work hard to get by him. My lad can get a bit generous if you put him in a position where he has to be competitive, so the only thing I could do was take (him) out of it. I was confident I was going to get him (Haatem), especially that last bit where he is climbing all the time. Hopefully, they both come out of it okay. No doubt (huge training performance by Richard Hannon), he has rolled the dice on a few occasions and he has come up on top. After the Guineas, he said he really wanted to come here and it has paid off again. He is absolutely brilliant to ride for, like his father before him. We work really well together because he doesn't tell me anything! I think his view is that he has done the training and the riding is completely up to me. If I get it wrong, don't get me wrong, my head is on the chopping block!. Fingers crossed, hopefully Ascot is the next step. I had my first ride here on South Wind Rising (17/4/05) and it is nice to come back with a favourite's chance and deliver. I'm delighted, both of them have run a super race. Rosallion was a bit keen early and Haatem is such a brave horse, he's run such a lovely race and I've never known a horse to have as many supporters as he has. He probably didn't deserve to get beat, but his day will come. Rosallion, I'm absolutely delighted with him,

Crystal Black dynamite in the Curragh

He's a good horse, it's great to get a good one. The ground was obviously a bit of a worry today. I thought a furlong out we were in trouble, he didn't get a run until very late. They are all great rides when they work out!. Last night it was just lovely ground, it was supposed to rain and it didn't. We were worried but he seems to go on any ground and if you are going to run him anywhere you'd run him here. He has to be a black-type horse now. The boys want to go to Ascot, it will be either one of the big handicaps or the mile-and-two Listed race. He'll be entered in two or three of them. I don't know what these boys are going to do when he gets beat!. He's improved all year, he was wrong early last year and it took him a few runs to get him right. This year it's been a clear run the whole way with him. We train him out of a woodchip paddock where he has a shelter in it, he isn't in a stable at all. It seems to work.

Super-sub Lee says Follow Me and his partner obliges

He's a fair horse, everything went wrong that could go wrong and he still weaved his way through. Three down I was like 'oh no', it was like watching a horror movie. Billy was so cool on him, he got his spots and got out. It's onwards and upwards with him, it's exciting to have him. They are two lovely horses (Dance Night Andday who won yesterday) that have won this weekend. They both worked on Tuesday morning and you'd think coming here that both of them would run well, but you'd hardly think on Guineas weekend both of them would win. Tom Malone bought him in France and it was a great buy for Amanda (Torrens). Unfortunately, she couldn't be here today, she had to go to the north for another engagement. She was roaring the phone down and she's delighted. We'll see what the handicapper does, he's 93 today and, if there was another handicap on Derby weekend that we could eke out of him, that's a possibility. He's very versatile ground-wise and it's just lovely to have a good horse. He's a big horse with loads of scope. When he came off the lorry to us, and given his two-year-old form, he came off like a big scopey horse and not a horse that was all about two. He's simple enough at home, likes his routine. I feel sorry for Shane Foley as he's ridden all his work and won his maiden on him. He was mad to ride him but had to ride for Jessie (Harrington) and then that horse (Matter Of Fact) was taken out. He is Shane's ride.

Jan Brueghel gives Moore a treble and O'Brien a brace