Richard Fahey column: Weekend team

It was great to win the Paddy Power Scurry Handicap at the Curragh with Strike Red on Saturday (replay below).

I said in the column he looked to be coming back to himself and to get his head in front again in such a valuable race was fantastic. He'll go straight to the Stewards' Cup at Goodwood off the back of it.

I get a real buzz winning a big pot in Ireland.

I find it strange to read it's one for the visitors when I have a winner there, I was born and raised less than an hour from the Curragh so it feels like a local track... it's always nice to have success there.

Tropical Island was good on debut at Ripon (replay below).

Her work at home had been impressive and I thought she did really well to pick up as she did having missed the break.

She'll have learned plenty from that and is a very nice filly to go forward with.

I'm in no rush to make any plans. We'll give her a bit of time and decide where to go once we've seen how she is.

The two-year-olds continue to go well and Ziggys Condor was very impressive at Pontefract on Friday evening.

That was more of a pleasant surprise for while he'd been showing up nicely at home, he struggled a bit against some of the good ones in a piece of work.

That suggests they may be very good.

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