Going - Good. Overcast
Jackpot Pool - €444.94 Dividend - €311.40 Winning Units - .64. Partial Carry Over of €112.12 to Tramore on Friday 18th August. Placepot Pool - €15,531.60 Dividend - €13.10 Winning Units - 826.19. Days Aggregate - €96,165.64 Last Year €115,002.97
Danny Mullins excels with patient ride on Rotten Row
Willywampus a second career winner for Eamon Courtney
Consort strikes on debut over flights
Royal Eagle flies in to win for Elliott and Kennedy
Foxfire Glow completes a double for Elliott
Mr Social a fourth winner inside a week for McDonagh
He ran well the last day. The last two furlongs up the hill in Downpatrick just caught him out. We stepped him back in trip here and it seemed to work. The start didn't go according to plan as we had planned to have him handy. He was back in front after little over a circuit, so it all went well in the end. He settles well in front, when he is in behind horses he can take a bit of a hold. We are delighted and it's nice to get a winner at your local track. John Paul Kelly is my brother-in-law and he is the managing director of StoreAll who sponsored the race, so it's nice to take a few bob off of him as well!. We might turn him out again quickly. There is an 80 to 95 at Killarney next week for trainers who haven't had 20 winners in the last season. We will see how he comes out of this but he might go there. We will do the right thing by him anyway.
Filey Bay wins his flat maiden for Mullins at Tramore
That was great. It was probably a bit short for him at Roscommon and he was on the back on a break. He definitely took all of the two-miles to get going here today. He has had a tough campaign and has been placed in a lot of big competitive races, the Betfair Hurdle, the County Hurdle, the Galway Hurdle. He has been in a lot of dogfights and it's great to see that enthusiasm still in him coming up the hill today. That win should put him in a great frame of mind, but where we go from here, I don't know. He has opened up another avenue now and he'll mix it I'm sure. The horses are running well and it's good to see. He needs three runs on the level to get into any of the big flat handicaps coming up and with the entries closing soon we won't rush another run with him. We will get him home and see. There could be a handicap hurdle at Listowel for him. He has loads of options and if we look after him, hopefully he will keep repaying us. It's Maxine's first winner on the track for me. I told her to go out and ride him with loads of confidence and she surely did. Sometimes it's hard to do the simple things right, but she executed it beautifully.
