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.

WHEN La Collina mugged Power in the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes at the Curragh last month, here’s one who could not believe what he had just seen.

THE silence around Kilkenny right now is golden.

AS own goals go this was a beauty.

BETFAIR has long played a major part in Irish racing and there is little doubt is often a useful tool when it comes to winner finding.

REMEMBER a horse called Ballyronan Boy, who was nabbed by the Tipperary stewards in May of last year?