Saluting worth noting next time

Last Saturday was right up there with the best days I have had in racing. Winning a Grade 1 is fantastic. To win two in one day is phenomenal and for Saludos to follow up by coming back to his best to take a Grade 2 prize on Sunday was just the icing on the cake.

Chaperoned got Leopardstown off to a good start when running so well to finish fourth in the Juvenile Hurdle. I probably gave Robert the wrong instructions and she should have been ridden closer to the pace. I’m not saying she’d have won but the way she flew home she might have been second or third at worst.

She has come out of the race well so we’re going to run her in the Grade 2 mares’ four-year-old hurdle in Fairyhouse on Wednesday. She probably lacks a gear and might still be a bit weak but she finishes her races very well and would have to have a very good chance.