Going - Good to Yielding, Yielding in places. Cloudy. Dry.
Jackpot Pool - €969.96 Not Won. Carried forward to No Course. Placepot Pool - €16,530.66 Dividend - €166.80 Winning Units - 69.38. Days Aggregate - €142,058.77 Last Year €162,774.51
Brown follows up Punchestown festival success at Ballinrobe
Outsider ends Stanley's long wait for a winner
I train at the back of Fairyhouse racecourse - that's where my land is and I only have a couple of horses in training. It's a long time (2014) since my last winner and Portrade won three for me about ten years ago including a big handicap at Listowel. in fairness Monty's Way was running quite well when he unseated Keith (Donoghue) here the last day and during the last three weeks he's turned a corner. We've changed the way we train him and bring him to the beach in Mornington a couple of times a week and he loves that. Dropping back in trip was a worry but the fact that he had won on the Flat and that he likes better ground gave us hope that he'd run well, although he really wants further. Conor gave him a great ride. Fair play also to Joseph Smith who does a lot of work in the yard and he deserves a lot of the credit for this win. This will keep us going for a while and hopefully we'll have a bit of fun with him during the summer.
No worries for long odds-on Supersundae
Callaghan completes 23/1 Ballinrobe double on outsider
Coillte Aris off the mark for Carey & Doyle
It's grand to win like that. I fancied her the last twice but she's always worked a lot better than she ran. Hopefully there might be another one in her and maybe the better ground helped. They're a great bunch of lads (I'm Going To No Home Syndicate) from Mullingar and I'm delighted for them.
Magnor Glory wins on chase debut
Cromwell continues winner-a-day average at Ballinrobe
Willie Mullins begins season with Ballinrobe double
I'd say Ballylinch (Stud, owner/breeders) don't have many six-year-olds!. He's obviously had a good bit of trouble - little niggly issues, nothing major, but sometimes when they get to his age they're stronger horses. I think he's only eighty per cent ready there and we weren't training him hard, as we just wanted to get him to the track. We took the very safety-first route (on the outer) there and it didn't matter. Obviously with his pedigree (by New Bay) he could go back to the Flat so that's an option. I'd love for him to win a winners' bumper, we'll see what's there, and he has the size and scope to jump hurdles. There's lots of options but there's a big engine there if we can keep the chassis in one piece.
