Going - Yielding to Soft (hurdle & bumper course), Yielding (chase course). Fine
Placepot Pool - 13,840.79 Dividend - 7.40 Winning Units - 1274.17. Quadpot Pool - 1,681.22 Dividend - 2.80 Winning Units - 440.88. Days Aggregate - 66,303.00 Last Year 78,015.00
Gabbys Cross off the mark over hurdles for de Bromhead
Dullea strikes at Tramore with Colonel Lesley
It's been a while since our last winner, it was before the lockdown. We haven't had many runners and our summer was quiet. They are just coming to hand in the last fortnight. I'm delighted with him. He came out of Eugene O'Sullivan's and Neill O'Donnell recommended him to me. I wasn't so sure about him after the last day but I think I got it wrong with him, I ran him too soon and ran him over two and a half. We gave him a better chance to settle into our system since and the two miles obviously suited. I thought Conor (Orr) gave him a brilliant ride. It all worked out but I don't know what kind of a race it was or where he will go from here. He will probably stick to something similar depending on what the handicapper does. He'll jump a fence at some stage but he is still only a four-year-old. He might go to Dundalk over the winter for a staying handicap, but we'll enjoy today first.
Wearapinkribbon makes the most of opportunity
Stepping up in trip and jumping helped him today. I know he made a mistake at the last but at home he has been jumping very well. He is a nice jumper and a nice horse that will go up in trip again I think. It has taken him a while to learn how to race. In his bumpers he was very green. Hopefully he might improve again to win a novice hurdle or two. He is owned by Neville Eager and a few pals of his. He is named in honour of their good friend Breda Miley who had cancer but is well at the moment.
Hopefully gives Mullins and Townend doubles at Tramore
Eventually she got there. She put in a nice run down in Listowel but it has taken her a long time to come right and get handicapped and get her jumping together. She put it all together today and the cheek-pieces just helped her. We went three miles with her before and we came back from that, so two and a half to two mile five seems to be her optimum trip at the moment. She'll mature and get stronger and probably stay further in time. She is probably not going to be a winter mare but we will probably have next summer with her.
Yaiza continues his Tramore love affair
Talk about horses for courses! He was unlucky the last day, we went wide with him and we shouldn't have. His first run here this year he got murdered on the inside and he is not a big horse. We decided to go wide the last day and he lost a lot of ground. He was good today. I thought two miles might be a bit sharp for him and they went a right good gallop. It played into his hands. He is a fierce genuine horse but he wouldn’t impress you at home. This is not a place for a slow horse, but he just loves it here and it's hard to figure him out. Ground is the key to him. He wouldn't like it too heavy and he is more of a summer horse. We might get a race for him around Thurles as the ground there won't get too soft, we'll see. It’ll probably be hard enough to place him now. It’s grand to win three with him anyway and Darragh gave him a super ride.
Bois De Clamart makes winning chase debut under Flanagan
I decided to go this route rather than getting him handicapped over hurdles. He is a big baby and hopefully we can go the novice rated route with him now and visit our hurdles again some other time. I'll tip away over fences with him now and he is a lovely, lovely horse. I'm very pleased with that and it's good to get the beginners out of the way as you can spend six months trying to win one. We'll take it baby steps with him. His jumping was a bit hit and miss but that's normal.
Kiely's Powerful Out readily wins bumper