Curragh Sat, 23rd Sep, 2023  One Look She's a nice filly and she's been a nice filly all year. I thought I would have run her earlier but it's just the way it worked out and she was just ready to run this week. I had her in the maiden at Down Royal on Monday. I think she's a nice filly and I gave her an (Irish) Guineas entry on Wednesday. I thought she was ready to start and good enough to be competitive. The plan was to track Frankie and see how we got on.

Curragh Sat, 23rd Sep, 2023  One Look She's a nice filly and she's been a nice filly all year. I thought I would have run her earlier but it's just the way it worked out and she was just ready to run this week. I had her in the maiden at Down Royal on Monday. I think she's a nice filly and I gave her an (Irish) Guineas entry on Wednesday. I thought she was ready to start and good enough to be competitive. The plan was to track Frankie and see how we got on.

Leopardstown Thu, 17th Aug, 2023  Celebrating Ethel We're delighted with that and Luke gave her a brilliant ride,. It was her first handicap the last day and he taught her plenty, she knew her job today. The big galloping track probably suits her and we dropped her back in trip. Luke said the last day that this was probably her trip and she might even go back to a mile. She's a game filly and she'll improve a lot from that again. She's named after a special woman as well, so it's great. She's named after Tom Stanley's mother Ethel, who died, so it's great for Tom and his father to see her winning today. Tom is friendly with the owner, Jim Browne, and he's in on a few horses with him. They breed them. It's great to have another winner for the Brownes as they are big supporters of ours. We've a good few coming up. I wasn't that happy with my horses early in the season, we had some rapeseed near us. Hopefully now they are coming into form. She's lightly raced and she's learning on the job. We fancied her tonight, Luke knew her from the last day. She's versatile and we'll pick something similar for her now. We'll have a bit of fun with her. In time she might even jump a hurdle. She ran in a bumper first time but she's sharpened up every time since. She got caught in heavy ground in the bumper.

Galway Sun, 6th Aug, 2023  Teed Up He has a serious appetite for racing and is an unbelievable horse to have in the yard. He loves it here. It might not have seemed that likely in the dip but as soon as he meets the rising ground, he grows another leg. He’s had a tough week and he could tell you what the traffic has been like coming up here this week! I’d imagine he’s earned a little break now and we can start planning for next year. Horses for courses, he loves it here and it’s a special place for the Mees. He’ll definitely target it again next year.

Galway Mon, 31st Jul, 2023  Teed Up The weather came for us today and probably didn’t suit a lot of others. He’s a proper little dinger of a horse and has such a good record around here — horses for courses and he loves coming back. The reason we bought him was the Ballybrit form and he’s paid off his purchase in spades. Ray (Barron) was very good on him. He hadn’t ridden for me before and I didn’t want to overload him with instructions. I just told him to take his time and if you get a gap on the hill make sure you go out and not in. He had a willing partner and it was great to see. It’s our summer marquee Festival and we don’t have too many social runners. They are all here with good chances and it’s going well.

Leopardstown Thu, 27th Jul, 2023  Brilliant Ryan was delighted with her and said to ride her more patiently the next day,. We'll go for something like the Debutante and ride her patiently rather than making use of her, he said he thought she would be better ridden that way. He said she's very genuine and she wanted to win, which is a big help.

Roscommon Mon, 10th Jul, 2023  Timourid He jumps well. He’s never the bravest but fiddles away. He won a Premier Handicap two runs ago and it was too quick the last day in the Curragh. He wouldn’t want it any softer than that over jumps. The Flat lads could call that soft. He’s a bit tricky like that with the ground. The lads are from Galway and want to go there but I’m not convinced that he should be going there up that hill. He was there last year and I think it’s a track that he doesn’t love. He likes these flat tracks and he could boss it today. Something more competitive might be hard for him.

Curragh Sun, 2nd Jul, 2023  Blues Emperor The horses are all going well. We worked them all on Tuesday and their scopes were clean and bloods were good. We had two fancied horses coming here today. On home work Rahmi (fourth) is a flashy worker but this horse when you get him to the races, and he gets into that rhythm, he’s hard to pass. That bit of rain we’ve had the last few days suited him. A stiff mile here is good for him, he’s very brave and when he gets to the front he doesn’t like being passed. He’s entered in Leopardstown for the mile and one (Nasrullah Handicap) and will probably go there and Rahmi might go to Galway.

Curragh Sat, 27th May, 2023  Timourid He's a likeable oul horse and he's been running well all year. It was sticky the last day, and we dropped him further back then on purpose but it just didn't suit him. He doesn't want to be in front too soon so it's hard to ride him handy but you have to. If you drop him in further he might just lose interest, he's a bit of a monkey but he's a good oul monkey. He's got done in a few head-bobbers and I thought he was a big price today as he's only ran one bad race this year.

Naas Sun, 21st May, 2023  Blues Emperor That was great, he's a bonny little horse. He ran really well the last day because he would have needed the run a little bit on that ground. Today we were wondering would he handle this better ground. He's very genuine and tough. It's a pleasure to have horses for the owners, they are lovely people and I rode winners for them when I was with John Oxx as an apprentice. It's great to get a horse like this for them. Hopefully he'll be able to be a premier handicap horse because he's very genuine. A mile is probably a good trip for him. He handled the ground but he'll probably be better with a bit more ease. He did the same in Listowel, when he got on the rail he doesn't let them get past.