The multi-talented Quevega produced a dazzling display to slam Voler La Vedette in the Grade 1 Ladbrokes.com Series World Hurdle at Punchestown last evening.

If there was one horse about which to get excited at Leopardstown last Sunday then it was surely John Oxx’s Sharestan.

Henry de Bromhead’s An Dearthair Og can land the second division of the Follow @TipperaryRaces On Twitter Maiden Hurdle at Tipperary this evening.

ZARIYNA can get us away to the perfect start by landing the opening one mile Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Fillies Maiden at Dundalk tonight.

A year ago Ireland won a record 13 of the 27 races at the Cheltenham festival.

QUARRYVALE, trained by Jimmy Mangan and partnered by his son, Patrick, ran her rivals ragged in the Tote Placepot Races 1 To 6 Chase at Thurles yesterday.

DERMOT WELD, fresh from beating Thousand Stars with Unaccompanied at Leopardstown on Thursday, can saddle El Toreros to land the nap in the Festival Hospitality three year-old Maiden Hurdle at Punchestown this afternoon.

THE more one looks at last Monday’s King George at Kempton, the more convinced you become that the Cheltenham Gold Cup is Long Run’s to lose.

THOSE of us who had pencilled in Mount Benbulben as a possible Cheltenham festival winner weren’t half left gasping for breath after he was beaten out of the gate by Boston Bob in a Grade 1 hurdle at Navan last Sunday.

TALKING to a number of trainers during the Listowel festival one had to be sympathetic to the plight in which many of them currently find themselves.