Going - Soft. Showery
Jackpot Pool - €7,261.26 Dividend - €213.50 Winning Units - 23.8. Placepot Pool - €21,060.07 Dividend - €66.80 Winning Units - 220.59. Days Aggregate - €155,430.93 (8 races). Last Year €220,735.53 (7 races).
Ocean Baroque enhances Cotter's fine juvenile record
It’s nice to win his maiden and it’s well deserved. His second up the Curragh has worked out well and the key to him is that he needs a cut in the ground. Declan said that he’d be one to mind and run him with cut in the ground. Maybe something like the Birdcatcher he could be competitive in. It’s great to get a winner for Jim and Geraldine Ryan and John Kirkland. Jim actually purchased him at the sales so he’s worked out a relatively cheap buy (17,000 at Goffs).
Shoebox proves sprint King for Coleman and Crosse
Freedom Falls gets Navan maiden in stewards room
She travelled away well through the race, handled the ground and it’s nice to get a bracket for the filly. My initial reaction after the race was that we wouldn’t get it but when I watched the head-on I thought we’d have a chance. She’s a small filly and I feel she was intimidated and was only beaten a head. She had some good two-year-old form. The saddle slipped at Fairyhouse two starts ago and the last day the ground was too quick for her. Today everything was right.
The Snapper gives trainer Jack Davison first career double
He’s a mudlark and seems to grow a leg on that ground. He has decent form on good ground but really comes into his own on that ground. They went a good gallop, the race set up nicely for him and Gary gave him a great ride. A stiff six on that ground or seven on the easy side of good is fine for him. We’ll go to Galway with him now hopefully. My dad (John) bred him and owns him along with my sister Emma. It’s nice when it’s a homebred.
Weld's Harbour Wind impresses in Navan romp
McCullagh makes all on Fahey's Road
It’s great to get that win for him. The race cut with a few non-runners but it was the main two that fought it out and he found enough to get the job done. His run in the Cork Derby suggested he had a chance in a race like this and the slower ground didn’t really matter. He goes on anything bar the extremes. Pat (McCarthy, owner/breeder) likes to have a runner in Galway so we might have a look at a mile and a half race there before going back over hurdles again.
Qasbaz turns competitive handicap into procession
Mr Mills a local Navan winner for trainer Timmons
