I HAVE to admit to getting a great kick out of Workforce winning the Prix de L’Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp last Sunday.

IN all the years of covering racing, I have to say this was the worst decision I have seen.

IRISH racing, which has been dragged through the mud since the Saturday of Listowel, reached a new low at Clonmel yesterday.

THERE has been a fair bit of furore in England, and here at home as well, regarding that performance – or rather non-performance – by Sariska at York.

In the press room at Tramore last Thursday week a group of us were watching a two-year-old maiden being run at Leopardstown.

FROM Saratoga in America to the county of Kerry is the road travelled by Steinbeck, the likely favourite for the featured Listed Vincent O’Brien Ruby Stakes at Killarney tonight.

TRAINER John Hanlon isn’t called the shark for nothing and at Tramore yesterday his heavily-backed Bandama scorched away with the Tote Go Racing Maiden Hurdle for amateur riders.

WE have learned one thing for sure of late – riding arrangements for Ballydoyle-trained horses have to be treated with more than a hint of caution.

DOES anyone, at this stage, really understand the rules when it comes to stewards’ inquiries?

PROFOUND BEAUTY is impossible to oppose in the Group 3 ITM/Springpaarden Fonds Ballyroan Stakes at Leopardstown tonight.