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“We were delighted with her (in France). Christophe always thought the world of her last year. Wayne won a winners race at the Curragh on her then Christophe rode her twice after and he was always raving and doting about her, so it shows how right he was.

“Ryan gave her a beautiful ride yesterday, he was very impressed with her. She looks a very special filly to do that on her first run back and win very nicely, so she’s very exciting.

“She’s typical of her dad, who improved a lot from two to three and she’s done the same. It took us the whole year to win with him as a two-year-old and then he came out and I think he was unbeaten as a three-year-old, winning all the big races all the way along, so it was incredible really.

“We were thinking of going to the Prix de Diane with her. Whether she will get a mile and a half in the Arc at the end of the year I don’t know. Ryan said she doesn’t feel like that but those good fillies can feel quick, especially at this time of the year, so who knows when she matures and we’ll see which way it all goes but I think the lads are thinking the Diane next with her.”

“Very few Queen Mary winners get a mile. Ryan won on her in Leopardstown in soft ground having gone wide all the way, and still won, and he still wasn’t convinced she would get a mile. Obviously you don’t know.

“Wayne gave her an absolute super ride [in the 1,000 Guineas], probably as good a ride as I think you would see anywhere. He won the Cheveley Park on her as well but I thought he was very good on her in the Guineas, he nursed her, kept her in there as long as he could, and produced her. 

“Obviously, she looks a very high class filly. Unusually for a filly, she’s so big and powerful. She’s bigger and stronger than 99% of colts, so that’s very unusual really.

“That fraction she did in the Guineas was probably unmatched anywhere, even with the colts I think, but it will be interesting. Hopefully she is okay and we will come back for the Irish Guineas with her but she looks a unique type of filly.

“I would think a mile is her distance, we’re delighted she got a mile and to ask her to stretch any further than probably wouldn’t be right. I don’t think you have to really. “We thought if we go back to the Curragh and back to the Coronation, there are loads of high quality fillies’ races over a mile after that.”

“She came out of the race super. Two months ago she missed a week, she had a temperature for a few days and we had to be gentle with her for that week. She came back very quick but even though we were training her for the Guineas we had to be conscious that was there. We knew going to the Guineas that she was just ready to start and Ryan obviously ended up on the wrong side, his side had got a long way back after four furlongs. 

“Ryan knew that, ideally he would have sat and got his bunch of horses to take him into the race but he felt that wasn’t going to happen so he had to make a move way earlier than he wanted to. When she needed the run, obviously that move cost him. But then, when he knew he wasn’t going to win he looked after her and so her run is probably a good bit better than it looked.

“She came out of the race great, we always felt that after this race that she could make a big jump and we’ve been very happy with everything since. 

“The plan at the moment is we’re thinking of going to the Irish Guineas and she’ll run with True Love again, I would imagine.

“If that went well and it looked like she might stay further, we could have a look at the Oaks. 

“She could go to the Irish Guineas and run a massive race and then go on to the Oaks but what does Ryan do, does he ride her or Amelia (Earhart)? 

“Listen, really it will be very difficult to get them all right but all you can do is make a decision and stay with it and move on.”

“She was always quirky and kinky in everything she did last year so we were very happy when she kept getting beat in her maidens because we kept learning about her, and she was learning too.

“We kept her at 7f because we wanted to keep educating her as long as we could because the minute she went up to a mile she was going to win easy, and that’s what she did at the end.

“All we were going to do was give her a prep for Epsom and we knew the place she was going to learn the most was Chester. She wears blinkers for speeding her up and a hood for slowing her down. We’ve tried everything with her but sometimes things can work without making much sense but if they work, you do it.

“She’s a filly with immense ability, she’s a bit like a colt, she’s got great strength and balance. 

“We probably haven’t seen her at full flow, opened up yet and whether that will happen I don’t know, but we’ve seen close to that at Chester and it will be interesting to see whether she opens up at Epsom. Either way, she’s still very exciting.”

“We always felt Benvenuto was a mile and a half horse that could get away with a mile and quarter but we never felt he was a Leger horse. 

“We always felt he was a very high cruiser with a lot of class through a race and that’s what he showed at Chester, so yeah, we couldn’t be happier with what he did.”

“We thought he was very good last year but he got a little injury so we had to stop. We knew we weren’t going to have a lot of time with him if he was going to be a Derby horse, which we thought he could be something very special and something very different.

“Obviously Chester was the most he has ever opened up and he seems to come out of the race well. He got the mile and a quarter really well and he could get further.

“Obviously the lads will have to decide whether he goes to the French Derby or Epsom and I would say he’s probably favouring the French over Epsom because we have Benvenuto and we have the horse that ran at Leopardstown (Pierre Bonnard) as well.”

“He went to Chantilly for his trial with the view that he could be a French Derby horse and he could go there as well. He won a nine furlong Group race nicely despite still being very raw and green and Christophe was very happy with him.

“He’s by Wootton Bassett, who is an influence for speed, and he was only in second gear really. He was a bit like that last year, very laid back and we put cheekpieces on him to help him a little bit. There is every chance that we might try a visor on him - he’s not ungenuine, he’s just lazy. 

“He’s always waiting and in those big races, you don’t get much time for waiting, especially in a French Derby around that bend on quick ground, there won’t be much time for slow reactions. It’s possible but we’ll see how he is and he’s a lovely horse.”

“We’re very happy with Pierre Bonnard. He made a big jump forward from the last day and he’ll need to jump again but we think he will. Because he was so far back the last day we couldn’t try and make that jump too quick but there is room for more.

“If he comes out of it well and he looks sound enough, then we always thought he was an Epsom horse and we always thought the Chester Vase horse was going to be his danger in Epsom. It looks like the Vase horse is going to be a shorter price at Epsom so it will be interesting.

“We always like running them into the autumn of their two year-year-old career and he ran in France on heavy ground over a mile and a quarter. When that happens, you have to give them plenty of time over the winter to build back up and you can’t tighten them up too quickly in the spring. 

“We wanted to get two runs into him before Epsom because he’s a big horse and he’s still a baby, so I think everything is going according to plan so far. 

“Ideally we would have preferred a stronger pace at Leopardstown and it was a bit of a mess but because of it he probably had an easy enough race. 

“He’s a big horse that will get a mile and a half and could even get a Leger trip. 

"Epsom is a tough place, there is nowhere to hide and if there is pace on in Epsom, anything can happen.”

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“We were delighted with him. He did everything right but there was no cover where he was and we always knew that could happen.

“Newmarket can be a lonely place to be facing daylight all the way down and that’s what happened, Ryan gave him a brilliant ride and he ran a brilliant race on the day.

“The winner got a little bit more cover in the early part of the race and when you do that, you have a little bit more of a kick. Our horse went a little bit right whereas the winner was left so we would love to meet the winner again and we look forward to it.

“Gstaad will go to the Curragh and then I would imagine they will meet again at Ascot.”

“Puerto Rico could also end up there after his run in France. We tried to get him ready for Newmarket but he went down a little bit on us and we think he’ll come on plenty from that run in France.

“It took him four or five runs to win his maiden and hopefully that doesn’t happen again this year. He looked a little bit rusty yesterday but it would be great if we could get him to the St James’s Palace at Ascot.”

“We were delighted with Jan Brueghel - the plan was that he’d have one run before the Coronation. 

“Last year he ate a bit of hay one morning and nearly choked, and ended up getting pneumonia and he was off for the whole year so he did well to get back the way he did. 

“He came out of the race great, it was a big run out of him and we’re looking forward to the Coronation with him.”

The dual Derby winner returned with a win at Chester this month and is set for a return to the scene of his greatest triumph.(Photo: Megan Coggin)

“Lambourn won the two derbies last year and we kept going after that and it’s tough, those horses have to go down a bit after that and he was probably gone by the end of the year.

“He came back great, he looks pacier this year. I don’t think he’d have been able to do that over a mile and a quarter last year. Ryan made him stride all the way and he kept answering so he’s going to be very interesting going to Epsom.

“If he gets left alone in front, he won’t stop. He’s improved physically, he looks a much stronger horse than last year so it’s very exciting.”

“She did it nicely on her first run back. She’s a lovely filly, a great cruiser and she’s just as happy at a mile and a quarter as at a mile and a half. 

“She seems to have come out of the Curragh well and we’re looking forward to aiming her at the Tattersalls Gold Cup. After that, she’ll go to Ascot and then the Arc is obviously on our minds for her again.

“Japan could be an option later in the year but we want to be sure that there is going to be pace on if we go back there.”

“He came out of the Chester race well. He’s a lovely horse, a very solid horse. He will improve a lot from it and there is a chance we could use him to bowl along in the Coronation at Epsom, unless we decide that Lambourn can make his own running.”

“He’s a gelding who won nicely at Naas and he’s probably going to go back to Naas again for the older horse’s sprint over five. We were delighted with his first run."

“He was off a long time before winning at Navan and he should improve a lot. We were delighted with that and have always thought he was a very good horse.”

* Editor's note: he has since finished second in the Listed Highclare Castle Gin Carnarvon Stakes at Newbury.

“As a two-year-old, Albert was by far the best horse, but then he got injured and couldn’t run any more. He worked so well that we thought the other horses were ordinary.

“We decided that we were going to give him a chance of getting a mile but we knew that if he was going to get a mile we would have to slow him down and get him to relax and try and get him to race without knowing he was training.

“He ran a lovely race at Newbury, although I probably shouldn’t have put a hood on him.

“We’re back at the stage now that we are probably going to go back to sprinting with him and we are looking at the Sandy Lane at Haydock, where Brussels might end up making the running for him.

“We haven’t really taken the lid off with him yet but we’re getting close and we think that going back to six will bring out the best of him and something unusual could happen.

“We have been prepared to get him beat because you learn a lot more in defeat and we still think the best is yet to come from him.”

“We’re very happy with him. No two-year-old has come off the bridle here yet so they are all running very green.

“When he went to the Curragh it was heavy ground and he learnt a little bit but not much and then he went to Naas on fast ground and when Wayne asked him to quicken he was changing his legs, as if he was having his first breeze. We think he’s a good horse but now he needs to learn. 

“I hope we will have taught him enough by Ascot, we’ve always thought he was a Coventry horse. He’s a fine big horse with a good action - he could be exciting.”

“He’s a very slick, easy horse. He’ll go back for a group race now and we always thought he was a Coventry horse as well. He could get seven furlongs, he’s got a good mind, he’s got a lot of natural ability so it will be interesting to see how he progresses.”

“She had a lovely run at the Curragh first time and Wayne said afterwards that if we step up her in trip on nice ground and you’ll see a very nice filly. 

“She learned plenty and it’s possible she could run in the Oaks but if not, she’ll go to something like the Ribblesdale. She’s a lovely filly.”

“She was a bit green and babyish at the Curragh and we kind of felt that could happen given where she was drawn.

“The line came a bit too quick for her but the penny is only really starting to drop with her.

“She’s a Dubawi who will get a mile and a quarter and she could even get a mile and a half, she’s massive, I think she’s 330-340kg, which is massive for a filly.

“She’s going to learn and improve a lot as she goes along so the thing is not to hurt her, just keep her coming. We might go to Irish Guineas weekend but the key is to not rush things with her because she’ll go on the ground in the autumn as well.”