Naas Sun, 15th Oct, 2023  Curvature She loves that if she can get onto the lead and she’s learning now,. She was too fresh in Listowel as she hadn’t run for a while but today she was really good and it’s great to get that big black type. She was only cruising in front but it’s a long way home here in the straight and she kept on really well.

Listowel Tue, 19th Sep, 2023  Spanish Tenor We were going to run him in a claimer (in August), but he is such a great horse and we've had great fun with him. We bought him from a claimer and Cian has now won four times on him now and he has been a brilliant horse. He got an easy lead as no one took him on, he loves a bit of juice in the ground, this is a frontrunners track. We keep him sweet by doing a couple of days at the beach and I don't think he has had a gallop since the last day he ran - these horses have the ability to do it, but just need to be sweet. Every year he pays his way and will have a break at the end of the turf season.

Galway Tue, 1st Aug, 2023  Livio Milo He deserves it, he's had three seconds on his last three runs and the plan worked out perfectly. He is probably better over a mile than seven furlongs and that's why the plan was to push on and get first run early in the straight,. That's what we did, he battled hard and got a good ride. He did what I thought he'd do. I love horses getting into a rhythm coming down the hill because so many get unbalanced. When they get balanced, they get a rhythm which gets them up the hill. That's his level and he's tough and the winning of the race today was tactics although I shouldn't be saying all this!

Cork Fri, 28th Jul, 2023  Torivega That was pure relief. Robbie gave him an absolutely class ride as you have to be really ballsy to sit there for so long although he said he wasn't ballsy enough to sit that way to the line!. I've been pitching him in at the deep end but I actually learned a lot about him in France so the trip wasn't a complete waste of time - and we had a lovely time! Deauville was my fault as I had asked David Egan (jockey) wrongly to go up front and he said afterwards that he'd have ridden him differently. We learnt from that and he is trying to race too much but is only a three-year-old and actually takes a lot of work. He is hard on himself because he is heavy. Viztoria (the winner's Group 2-winning dam) was a pinhook who we couldn't sell and Ado McGuinness and Eddie Lynam trained her, but it was almost by default that I got into training. Viztoria suckered John (Lavery, brother) into ownership and it was happy days for me. She has got Invincible Spirit and Sea The Stars foals on the ground and is in-foal to New Bay.