Leopardstown Sun, 12th May, 2024  Wendla She's a lovely honest filly. The ground comes all the same to her, she's handled heavy and she handled that,. She's a light filly so I didn't have any doubts she'd handle that. I probably had her wrong and Colin had her right. I thought the way the race was run it wasn't going to suit as it turned into a sprint, she's pacier than I gave her credit for. I had her down as a horse, going forward, that would go further sooner rather than later. Colin has her as having more speed than I gave her credit for, thankfully he was right. He was in the right place on her and she answered and did it well. You couldn't knock the performance. When you get those fillies you try and win a maiden to tick the first box and then you are looking for black-type and winning black-type is brilliant. I just thought we were going too slow, they were doing 14 seconds fractions and that's too slow. I was thinking we're in trouble and that speed is just going to go past us. Thankfully I was wrong about my filly, she's quicker than I gave her credit for.

Curragh Mon, 6th May, 2024  White Birch I’m very pleased with that, it was a very good performance. He travelled along nicely, they didn’t go much of a gallop, but it was by far his best performance. We couldn’t be happier with that. We’ll see how he comes out of that and talk to the owners to make a plan. He has the option of the Tattersalls Gold Cup and also the Coronation Cup at Epsom. He’s come on a nice bit from the last day and hopefully he can come on again.

Naas Sun, 24th Mar, 2024  Wendla Colin said to me she'd win if she did what we've seen at home. It's about whether they handle the ground or not,. We said we'd throw the mud at the wall and see what sticks, they are working today instead of yesterday. She's a nice filly and it's nice to get the maidens out of the way with the likes of her and Sakti (won at Dundalk on Friday). We thought if she handles that ground if one of the trials comes up soft then we have one for it and if it turns up good we've one for it too. I'm not saying they are Guineas horses or anything, they've to prove that, but at the minute we've won our maiden and they are horses we would like to be going to a trial with and see where the ceiling is in time. Chris was keeping her in there and it gives you that chance to get that breath as well. She has ability. If he'd kept her in and she wasn't able to get back up you would have accepted but it's nice to just win the maiden and get on with it now. There's nothing that gets going until after Punchestown so that gives us a chance to take a breather and obviously the trials are what I wanted to aim at. Ultimately it's all about stakes race with all the horses.