Going - Soft. Raining
Placepot Pool - 17,106.77 Dividend - 303.10 Winning Units - 39.5. Days Aggregate - 69,551.00 (7 races). Last Year 92,029.00 (8 races).
Hurricane shines in the rain at Bellewstown
He's been disappointing, I thought he'd win a bumper,. He disappointed a few times so I'm delighted with that as he works well at home. I thought the issue was that he wasn't showing battling qualities but to be fair to him he did today.
Serpolette stays wide and in front
Tellmesomethinggirl dominates from the front
Magic Sea welcomes incessant rain
I was delighted with that. Both times that he's won before it has bucketed with rain on the morning of the race so I knew he had his ground. He's been in great form. The ground didn't go as soft as I would have hoped in Galway. The two miles on good ground there was a bit too short. Actually the form of that race has turned out very good anyway. I would have been hopeful there on softer ground as he likes it around there. He was second there on the Flat. I'm the only person here delighted to be soaked!. Eoin gets on with him brilliantly and knows him inside out. We'll chop and change it with him now, he'll go over fences once we get our ground and a course that suits. We're really looking forward to that and we think the best is yet to come.
Rhythm Divine an in-form mare
She's brilliant. We were worried about the ground, even though she has run well on bad ground before in fairness to her, as she's definitely better on better ground,. She's just a lovely mare by a class sire. She's done very little wrong since we've got her, she's consistent and professional. Horses like her are easy to train.
Ballycastle Girl surprises Dunne
We didn't expect it on that ground. The owner was thinking of pulling her out but I said we can always tell the jockey, if she's not enjoying it, to look after her and keep her for the next day. She's a little dinger! We knew the low weight would really suit her. She keeps delivering and the main thing is that they do it on the track. She's not the biggest and the low weight really suits her. If she got into a better race and only had 9-10 on her back that would suit. I don't know where we'll go next but she's done enough now anyway.
Erins Benefit reaps her dividend