The week in words: 'If you can win with that horse you can win with anything'

You can forget the Samcro who we thought was the real deal at one stage, he's not that any more. We'll have to probably end up with a handicap mark now as he's going nowhere as a good horse. A good horse, he is not
Gigginstown’s Eddie O’Leary raises the possibility of Samcro going handicapping after his latest Grade 1 flop behind Faugheen in the Matchbook Betting Exchange Novice Chase at Limerick

I told Tom to get his National Hunt licence and we’d give him a couple of spins over Christmas. He looked all right there and hasn’t lost it yet!
Trainer Declan Queally after his brother and Frankel's rider Tom rode his first winner back over jumps at Tramore on New Year's Day

Isa’Af was a cripple really. They thought he was so bad they couldn’t do anything with him, but we got him right and he won us 11 races. After that Dennis O’Brien, who works for Shadwell, called me over and said if you can win with that horse you can win with anything and he put me right every year since
Newly retired trainer Peter Hiatt looks back on the career of Isa'Af, one of his stable flagbearers

I was more nervous there than when I was watching the Gold Cup. It's been a while since I was at Tramore on New Year's Day myself. It was a bumper crowd here and I'm sure the weather was a huge help but having a horse like Al Boum Photo was no deterrent
Willie Mullins reveals his agitation while seeing the much-anticipated return to the track of Gold Cup hero Al Boum Photo at Tramore

What a great horse to have, but he’s so fragile. Warren takes this horse swimming every day – I think he gets in the pool with him!
Owner Max McNeill after the Warren Greatrex-trained Portrush Ted overcame a 519-day layoff to land the 2m5½f handicap hurdle at Ayr

It has ruined Dan's trip to Disneyland
Tom Messenger, assistant trainer to Dan Skelton who is on holiday in Florida, after the yard's Protektorat was deemed to have interfered with Cheltenham second Imperial Alcazar and positions were reversed

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