Market signals right on point with Alohamora

It was a brilliant performance from man and horse and Gavin gave her a great ride as usual,. She has only had four runs over fences and got an awful fall at Catterick and it knocked the stuffing out of her. We ran her afterwards at Limerick and she pulled herself up and wouldn't take part so I didn't know until she got down over the first couple today. The owners (Alamo Eight Syndicate) are from the UK and the first time I got to meet them was a couple of weeks ago in Cheltenham, even though they have her 18 months. Everyone was happy with her in Cheltenham but I was a bit disappointed and thought she was a little better than she ran. She bounced out of the race and we were taking a bit of a chance running here but the race cut up and I'm sure everyone was expecting it to be stronger. At the declaration stage, with Gavin claiming 7lbs, I thought she had a small chance and she put it all together today thank God. There are plenty options going forwards.

Fil Dor continues to progress nicely

Davy said he was just professional and was asleep the whole way. He gave him one dig and he did what he had to do,. A bit of softer ground would suit him better but it was a nice performance and he did it well. Lunar Power brought him a little left so he needed the good jump at the last. We will look at Leopardstown over Christmas but ground will be a thing so we will put him in Chepstow as well.

Statuaire returns from a break with a bang in the Royal Bond

I had her entered in the handicap but thought if ever you were going to win a Grade 1, this was your chance and that's why I ran her in it. She can run in a handicap every day of her life but I felt with the experience she had in France before she came here, and the way she jumped and we hadn't asked her many questions and she had won two out of two,. I thought 'who knows how good she is' and she had got a break and got hugely strong during her break and filled out. She improved and a lot of things fell her way. A lot of the runners got racing and too involved too far out which gave Danny a chance to settle his mare and come with one run with her. He timed it to perfection. It bodes well for my other novices but she still hadn't done anything wrong and she can't help what she beat before. They mightn't have been great races but she was still able to win them. She will go on to Leopardstown for the Grade 1 and you'd have to say the mares' novice at Cheltenham would be the target.

O'Regan savours win at top level aboard Beacon Edge

Like every one else, I thought we were struggling at halfway and we were looking like we weren't at the races. I don't think Denis could go any quicker but from three out I thought we were getting back into it,. I started shouting at the second last as the two in front went so quick and mightn't keep it up and there was not a lot between him and Fury Road over hurdles. My lad jumped reasonably well but going as quick as that, maybe he was struggling a bit on the ground. You'd have to think three miles is his trip and the three-mile race at Leopardstown over Christmas is the obvious next race for him. He has a bit of blood on his nose - I've never seem him bleed before but sometimes they can get that from up high (in his nostril) or sometimes it can happen when they hit a fence. It didn't stop him today anyway. I feel sorry for Nicky Richards who bought him as a Landrover (Sale) horse and he had to sell him because he couldn't get an owner for him; he called him Beacon Edge because he had a fella who owned the Beacon Hotel who he thought would buy him but still didn't.

Elliott and O'Regan making hay on Hatton's Grace day

We thought he might run a nice race in the Troytown last week but he fell at the first and Denis gave him a brilliant ride,. He was in a dispersal Sale out of Gigginstown, and we bought him for these type of races and to have a runner in Cheltenham and all these places. The Irish Grand National would be the aim and he could go for the Kim Muir (at Cheltenham) too. I'm delighted for David (Barnard) and a very good friend of mine Mark Madden, who used to ride, owns a leg of him so it is great for them.

Honeysuckle dominant again for 3rd Hatton's Grace success

"Incredible half an hour" for de Bromhead and Blackmore at Fairyhouse

College pals Taaffe and Swan dead heat in Fairyhouse bumper

I was delighted as I thought, on the line, we were beaten. It's gas because the two boys Pat (Taaffe) and Harry (Swan) are best pals, live together and are in college together. He ran well in the north and Pat was adamant the better ground would suit him but I wasn't so sure. It must have suited him though. I told him not to get there too soon on him and I'd say he was there time enough because if he was there any longer he would have been beaten.