MORNING prices again proved more than a good friend to punters at Clonmel last night.

BETHRAH came with a flying late challenge to give Dermot Weld his fourth win in the Etihad Airways Irish 1000 Guineas at the Curragh yesterday.

TWO weeks to the Epsom Derby and the mystery continues.

JOHNNY MURTAGH wasted no time getting down to business at Tipperary last night, booting home the first three winners.

PAUL NOLAN’S classy Cuan Na Grai toyed with the opposition on the way to landing the Supermacs’ Drive Thru Hurdle at Limerick yesterday.

GOOD old Barney Curley didn’t half liven up the scene with those well-publicised gambles in England on Monday.

TRAINER, Eoin Griffin, has seen little go his way over many months, but there are signs of an upswing in fortunes and his Norther Bay can keep the current modest momentum going in the Mallow Town Summer BBQ Race Evening Beginners Chase at Cork tonight.

THERE are times when you really wonder what the race-planners are at in this country?

ANDREW LYNCH was positively brilliant when guiding French-import Kotkidy to victory in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Beginners Chase atKillarney last night.

IF Aidan O’Brien can get St Nicholas Abbey to win the Epsom Derby on June 4 then he can surely be mentioned in the same breath as Merlin - and we all know what his profession was.