Going - Hurdle - Yielding, yielding to soft in places Chase - Yielding, good to yielding in places. Fine
Jackpot Pool - 9,176.14 Dividend - 3,537.40 Winning Units - 1.82. Placepot Pool - 27,213.30 Dividend - 146.40 Winning Units - 130.17. Days Aggregate - 372,530.76 Last Year 334,553.73
No Flies On Him has O'Grady looking forward with relish
We're absolutely thrilled with him,. I chose him as a three-year-old at the Derby Sale, JP very kindly let me pick one out. He in turn then sent him for a proper education, to boarding school, to Derek O'Connor who did a fantastic job with him. Then he came back to me this autumn. He has a wonderful pedigree, his great grandmother is the dam of Makybe Diva who won three Melbourne Cups. He looks like a very promising horse. I've had a lot of swans in the last few years and they've all turned out to be geese but I think this fella might stay a swan. Mark said that there wasn't any great pace so he was very happy to be in front. He jumped superb and maybe got a little bit lonely after the last but he was very happy with him. I suppose I'll be told what to do with him but I wouldn't mind stepping him up. The horse that was second to him in his point-to-point (Jango Baie) won first time out at Ascot for Nicky Henderson. He runs in a Grade 1 at Aintree today so it will be interesting to see how he runs. He'll have to be entered in Grade 1s anyway and fingers crossed I think he might just get there. He's got size and scope and he's only a four-year-old. I think there is going to be tremendous improvement in him, I hope so. Hopefully he stays lucky, stays right and healthy. I've been waiting for one like this for too long, thank-God the number six bus has arrived and I'd love if a second one would arrive in a hurry.
Elliott happy to see King progressing again
That was great. We were riding him all wrong and the last day we changed our minds in the Grade 1. Jack was delighted with the way he settled, and he jumped well, so we're very happy. He's not a bad horse and to be honest he had disappointed me up until now as I always thought he was a proper horse. He might just come good now, I'd say the ground could be key to him as well.
Elliott doubles up with Conti
It was a good performance, she was tough. She didn't lose much in defeat the last, only that she got beat. We're happy today. I'd say she likes a good gallop, she'll stay very well.
Cawley living the dream with Charlie
It's the dream to get one here. I definitely didn't think he could do it in his first handicap,. JJ said in the first mile the horse didn't really know what to do because they were travelling that much faster. The ground is fairly lively there and totally different to the ground he was running on. It's always very hard to win here even with an experienced handicap horse let alone a horse with no handicap experience. We've given lots of schooling at home as fast as we could go with him but it's totally when you are in a race. I think the ground suits him, no question about it, as we ran him in Naas one day on soft to heavy and he just couldn't handle it. I don't know where we go now. He won't get in here at the festival unless the handicapper really goes to town. I'm delighted to get that anyway.
Found A Fifty comes to the fore in Grade One Racing Post Chase
Power Folkes delighted with Leopardstown win
He jumped super. Rachael was in front a lot sooner than I thought she would be but he actually jumped his way to the front so she just sat against him and took him back. He's toughed it out really well. He got under the last a bit but picked up again and when the other horse came to him he went away. He ran okay in Fairyhouse on ground that wouldn't be suitable for him, this ground is key to him as he likes a bit of nice ground. He was second in this race last year and it's great to go one better. We could probably look at the two-mile handicap at the Dublin Racing Festival as he runs well here, that would be the first thing that springs to mind — if he gets nice ground.
Goldinthemountains ends day on right note for Mulryans and Brassil
He's a lovely horse. We got him after his summer break, Pat Doyle had him schooling in the spring and ran him in a bumper at Punchestown, he ran a beautiful race to be fourth. We hadn't killed him with work, he's strengthening up and enjoying life. He's a lovely tempered horse, you could ride him up through the crowd there and he wouldn't pay a blind bit of notice. He just has a good mind. He'll like a bit of nicer ground as well. He jumps really well, he has schooled over hurdles and fences, and he'll be a nice one to look forward to next year for hurdling. He might run in another bumper in the spring at Punchestown or here. He's not a typical bumper horse, he's just a good galloping horse and I'd say the further he goes the better he'll be.