Naas Wed, 24th Jul, 2024  Selective Power This horse has my head wrecked! He is some work horse but today's the first time he's done it,. When he comes to the races he won't go into a stable and we've to walk him around for the hour when we get here but he's always had that ability. We have four horses in training, three of them have won this year and the other horse, Divilabother who runs on Friday, has been second. Rob (Whearty) rode him the last day and said he didn't stay. He's at the right end of the handicap and hopefully he won't go too hard on him. He'll keep going. I'm delighted for my dad Paul who hasn't been well. This is his syndicate so it means a lot.

Leopardstown Thu, 11th Jul, 2024  Jancis She's a lovely filly. Myself and Nancy (Sexton) spoke last week and it was either here or Killarney next week. I just thought that Killarney would be a full field and might be a bit much for her. I thought that she'd been up here and had a good experience the last day so let's come back here. Win, lose or draw she'd learn a lot more today, which she did. She's a great walking filly, she's an athlete, and we just took our time with her. We're happy with that. We'll come back here for the Matron, I don't know if we'll do anything before that. She's a light-framed filly and she doesn't take much work. They were going a good clip today, the last day was a maiden whereas this was a Group 3 with proper hardy horses in it. I just loved the way she picked up when she went through the gears. Billy thought there was still more there. She obviously flows over good ground so that's what she'll be running on, we'll keep her on that.

Leopardstown Thu, 13th Jun, 2024  Jancis They went very hard up front. Billy said she jumped smart but he just wanted to settle her in,. She was a bit free and leery, the road is about 100 yards after the stalls, so he just wanted to get her into a nice rhythm. She's a bit nervous and the whole thing about today was to get her started. The owner has been very patient with her and we wanted to get her started, give her a good day out and see where we go from there. It's a beautiful track and it's riding lovely, there is a lovely long straight. She turned in and Billy said he gave her a chance and she just lengthened the whole way to the line and she loved it. How good the race was, I don't know. She's been doing that at home but she's just a little bit leery, she's nervous and hasn't got confidence in herself. That will do her the world of good, she only got one flick there. Nancy Sexton sent her to me. Those colours are 100 years old in Chile and it's the first time they've been seen here in Ireland so it's a great pleasure to train a winner first time out for Arturo. Hopefully it's onwards and upwards with her.