Going - Good, good to firm in places. Overcast
Ex-breezer wins Naas opener
So Majestic sends McGivern on honeymoon break
she had to win today to see what route we'd go down and I'm actually going off on my honeymoon for two weeks so she'll have a two-week break! . When I get back I'll line something up again - she'd go on firm ground but she'll go on softer as well, her preference though would be this ground. we always thought an awful lot of her and she was heavily back the first day (last March) but ran with the choke out and held her breath. Chris (Hayes) rides all her work at home and got on her the next day and she did the same so we were both very disappointed. We decided to drop her back to five (furlongs) to teach her how to breathe and how to run a race. She had been a breeze-up horse in my yard and obviously learned to only do two furlongs but the penny is after dropping and she's coming together. He (Leigh Roche, winning jockey) had no cover today and I thought we'd be in bother getting the five-and-a-half here but she didn't.
Falskirt springs 20/1 shock on debut
He's a nice horse. He was working very well early in the year, and I expected him to win an early maiden, but he just went lame on me,. Andrew said he hit every ridge in the place today and he was still green. I'd say he'll make into a nice sprinter. I hadn't him fully wound up today. He's a fine big horse and I had to wait until now to run him. I got him about mid-summer last year and he was just backward and took a bit of time. I had him ready to run in the first six-furlong maiden here and I thought he'd win, he had worked very well on Walsh's Hill a few times. He just went lame, nothing major he was a bit immature and needed a bit of time. I think as the year he goes on he'll get better. I thought he might be a bit green today and we'd go for another maiden. I'd say he'll be a fair horse in those backend handicaps and I might wait for them. I might not run him for about six weeks as he's a big horse. I'd say as a four-year-old he'll really be a horse and he could make into really good sprinter next season.
Second success for Sioux Spirit
she ran poorly at Listowel on her last start over a mile but her run prior to that was encouraging at the Curragh, in a big field Guineas weekend handicap. The handicapper had allowed her a few pounds but she's just one you wouldn't be entirely sure of, to be quite frank, as she has a couple of ways of running. When she puts it together she's quite useful. She's a decent type of filly but thinks about things.
Library adds Oaks Trial to collection
Meade hails 'something different' about winning 5lb claimer
he's a very good rider, I think he has a little bit of something different about him. He's been lucky for me as well, which always makes you feel a bit different about them!
Easy success for Group 1-placed Eternal Silence
that's more like it, she was great there and deserved that. She's actually got better with racing, she's more relaxed now and is beginning to know what it's all about. We'll go back up now into stakes company over that trip or a little bit further. I think she will in time get further. She'll be a lovely filly next year, the size and scope of her. I think the older she gets she'll go on any ground as well. There is the Hurry Harriet Stakes in Gowran over nine furlongs and various other ones for her.
Aga Khan's Shayzann wins Naas finale
it was lovely to win his maiden, it was a very nice run the first day and a track like this really suited him. I put him in the Meld Stakes today and we'll see where we go from there. Ben (Coen) said he hit the line well and he'll definitely get another furlong, probably two. He's a big horse and I think he's going to improve with a bit of racing. He always showed plenty of ability it was just a matter of giving him time and letting him mature into his size. Ben said he rode him like a favourite, there wasn't that much pace on and he arrived there well. He said he liked the way he dug down in the last half a furlong and he would have learned a lot today.
