BALLINROBE last Monday night created a right bit of controversy.

WHEN you watch a lot of racing there aren’t many occasions when the performance of a horse makes you sit up and take particular notice.

IT’S A puzzle, a real puzzle! At Fairyhouse last month, Chris Hayes was suspended for two days, having been found guilty of careless riding, after he had won on a horse called Laldie.

CRUISING KATIE, the only horse Richard Cotter from Ballynoe, Co Cork, has in training did him proud when taking the Greenmount Annual Members’ Novice Chase at Limerick yesterday.

AIDAN O’BRIEN, for the third time in his career, saddled the first three in yesterday’s Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby at the Curragh.

AT Tipperary on June 17, the stewards thought it was fine for Robert Rower, in a conditions chase, to just push out Bobs Pride hands and heels and, as a result, get him beaten a short head by Don’t Be Bitin. Bobs Pride went off a heavily-backed 15-8 favourite.

NO matter what you have to do next Tuesday make sure to get in front of a television for the Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot at 2.30.

JESSICA Harrington’s Blaze Brightly, who had finished second three times previously, got it right for Fran Berry in the Median Auction Maiden at Listowel yesterday.

FINALLY, we can get down to business this afternoon, leaving all the St Nicholas Abbey drama behind us, and concentrate on the most exciting flat race in the world, the Epsom Derby.

AT Tipperary last Thursday week the stewards found what could be best described as a real easy touch in the shape of a horse called Ballyronan Boy.