Going - Yielding (Hurdle), Yielding to Soft (Chase). Fine
Jackpot Pool - €15,211.72 Dividend - €3,549.40 Winning Units - 3. Placepot Pool - €48,973.99 Dividend - €10.20 Winning Units - 3351.99. Pick Six Pool - €10,561.10 Not Won. Carried forward to No Course. Days Aggregate - €173,142.00 Last Year €284,426.00
Battle proves easy victor in opener
We think he’s a nice horse. He improved a lot from his run the last day in the bumper and he’ll improve again for his first run over hurdles,. He jumped very well and a step up in trip the next day will suit him. He stays very well. He’ll probably go to Naas next (for the Lawlor’s Of Naas Novice Hurdle, Grade 1 on January 6th) all being well.
York makes winning return
Davy gave him a great ride. He had a bit of leg trouble and missed a year. He didn’t jump particularly well, he jumped pretty awful really and left his hind legs in everything. He just keeps galloping and I’d say the softer the ground and the longer the trip the more he would like it.
Meade doubles up with Molly
I thought that he’d done as much as he was going to do over hurdles. He’s a bit one paced but he jumps very well so that’s why I put him over fences as soon as we did. He did what we thought he would do and he’s certainly going to be better over three miles. I don’t know where he will go next but he’ll stay over fences.
Danse clings on give Mullins double
He’s a slow lairy horse and he needs to be forcefully ridden. He travelled too well in his first two hurdles this year, and any day he’s won he’s been forcing it from the front. He’s brilliant over a fence.
Allen makes it two from two in style
He’s still only learning, and Jamie said he couldn’t pull him up after the race. He’s a big raw horse, and we like him. He might not be a Cheltenham bumper horse this year but he’s a horse for the future. He’ll probably have one more run this season but it probably won’t be in Cheltenham. Malone Road probably won’t make Cheltenham the way things are going but maybe Punchestown. It’s not career threatening but it’s holding us up. When you miss six or eight weeks this time of the year unfortunately that’s what happens.
