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And in the Rothschild, he was able to jump a lot smarter, sit a lot closer to Blue Bolt, and ended up finishing a lot closer as well.

The talk is after this that she's gonna step up to a mile and a quarter for the Fillies' and Mares' in the US, Precise, that is.

And I could see her from stall one being ridden really forwardly by, by Ryan.

She's clearly fit.

Do you know what? I'm gonna go for one of the handicaps tomorrow evening.

Last race at, uh, Leopardstown.

The, uh, the Fillies race, uh, Autumn Fillies race, and I'm gonna go with Willie McCreery's filly, uh, which is Rebel Wave.

Ben Cohen is, uh, doing his minimum weight on this filly.

envy of every race and jurisdiction in the world.

It's the perfect time, two great tracks, all the races are perfect races, championship races for all the horses can meet, the younger three-year-olds, the two-year-olds, Colts, Fillies, different distances.

I think it's absolutely perfect.

Ireland has always... punched way above its weight per capita in comparison to any country in the world in racing.

Well, when you got to that point of like, was there any point? Could you specifically say there was a point in your career development and your business development? Was there a milestone that you said, okay, we're really doing this? It's really happening? At any point, was there a horse maybe that brought the most money? You're like, wow, I'm in the game.

Yeah, I had a yearling filly.

sell my first year that I didn't raise here, but I had had, you know, it was like three or four months old and the stud fee was, uh, you know, 25,000 and she ended up selling for 300 and she was a beautiful Philly.

And I always, you know, believed in her.

And I think that was when I was like, okay, I can take a horse up to the sale and, and do well.

Um, she, she's going well.

Filly called Profligate, quite like her.

Yes.

She ran second behind, uh, um, the horse of Bassaman's in the ANZAC Stakes.

Yeah.

But surely the fact that she, that Sparrow Noir is 10 to 1 to win the Filly and Mare race on Champion's Day gives you an idea of, of h- [laughs] of how good Calparnia is.

Yeah.

Uh, you know, if Calparnia was a real, real top, top, top horse, like a lot of-

Yeah

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Filly and Mare race.

The fact that she's 10 to 1 I think tells you a lot about what happened today.

And then try and, uh, and then try and pick your way towards a Group One.

Is that, is that Fillies' and Mares' at the end of the year a, a suitable target for her?

Yeah, I think she's pretty versatile, um, ground and trip-wise, so I think you'd have the options of the Opera, the Fillies' and Mares' at Ascot and, you know, if you, if you, if you hit the...

If you were lucky enough to hit the back of the net on one of them, you wouldn't rule out...

I'd say she'd like America as well, so she's a very exciting filly and, uh, you know, she has plenty of options open.