00:00I grew up beside a racing yard and just was mesmerized by the colors, the jockeys, the
00:27whole thing. I knew what I wanted to do from day one. I knew I could do it, but it's one
00:33thing knowing it and another thing doing it.
00:42I didn't want to stay in school. I wanted to leave school, but there was no way that was
00:45going to happen because my parents didn't understand this game. I didn't even collect
00:48my Leaving Cert. I know I got it, but I didn't even collect it. I just went straight into
00:53McCreary's and carried on from there. And because I had no family input or no lead horse,
01:00I sort of plotted my own route. When I got a trainer's license, I came out fighting.
01:05I just always felt I had to fight my way. The day I trained my first winner, I had one
01:09horse. Back in 1994, God, I can't wait to have 30 horses or I can't wait to have 50 horses
01:16or then I can't wait to have a hundred horses and thinking as you get up, it'll get easier.
01:20And I can quite honestly say it just gets harder. The Chibli Park goes to Lightning Pearl,
01:25another success. We've won the Chibli Park. We've won two classics over here. I'm guilty
01:30of taking a lot of shit for granted when I hear other trainers talking, but we've won
01:33probably every stakes race in Ireland. And I go, well, it's not what we're supposed to
01:37be doing. Do you know what I mean? But without being flippant, the highlight of the whole
01:43bar none British Cup, end of story. The minute we seen this horse on the far side of the water,
01:49we knew this horse had arrived that mentally that he's made for it. So let's just see what
01:53happens. And now he's tiny. And if we have a horse to go to war with the right horse here,
01:59because nothing's phasing him, you know, fast five around the bend. It was made for a horse
02:04like him. And they say then, if you missed a break in America, you're buggered. But not
02:08for him, because that was his forte. When they're stopping, he's just coming. And it
02:12just played into his hands.
02:14Arizona Blaise is coming to. And Big Mojo, here's the wire. Magnum Force has done it.
02:20Breeders' Cup means something. Like, probably didn't expect to win it, if that makes sense.
02:24You know, he just, like, my modus would always be run well. Win is a bonus. The thing about
02:31the Breeders' Cup is you're there for a week. And it's a very, very good experience. And if you're
02:36lucky enough to have a horse that's good enough, stroke invited to go, I would advise you to
02:41go.
02:46Lady Iman is a beautiful filly, and probably, I would have said, at this stage of her game,
02:51better than him, which is grand. She's special. She's proven to be special. Rock-solid temperament,
02:57made for it. Then you have the Flying Childers, Doncaster, and then onto the Breeders' Cup.
03:04If you gave me the golden key, it'd be just, I'd just love two-year-olds. Love two-year-olds,
03:10and blessed with the pedigrees we're getting in the last few years.
03:14You learn every day. You learn what you're doing wrong. Oh, I better not do that again.
03:20If you're of that mindset, you know, you surround yourself with the right people. This is what
03:25I aimed for. This is what I said I was going to do in my head. Saying it and doing it are two
03:29different things. But, like, if I retire tomorrow, I've done okay. Will I ever be satisfied?
03:34Probably not. I suppose that's success, isn't it?
03:36I suppose that's success, isn't it?
03:37I suppose that's success, isn't it?
03:38I suppose that's success, isn't it?
03:43Well, where let's go.
03:44Sorry trample.
03:45I suppose that's success, isn't good.
03:46It always makes me you answer your thoughts.
03:48You don't.
03:49You were doing something wrong with me until the end of 7 season,
03:50is that you are starting to take my crown.
03:51I suppose for you.
03:52I suppose for you to hold things wrong with me.
03:54Well, I suppose that the Denver conditions were useless,
03:55I suppose it will be as good as that quatre nations were slightlyetics-like.
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