WILLIE MULLINS’ Golden Silver, a proven mud-lark, showed he is just as effective on a sound surface when landing the Boylesports.com Champion Chase at Punchestown yesterday.

TAKE a chance on Cooldine turning-over Denman in the Guinness Gold Cup at Punchestown this evening.

FAMOUS NAME is fancied to outclass his rivals in the Listed Heritage Stakes at Leopardstown tomorrow.

EVER hear of a guy called Louis Romanet? Well, he used to be heavily involved in French racing, but these days is better known as the chairman of the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities — if that’s not a contradiction.

PUNTERS who backed De Valira in the mile and six conditions race at Tipperary last night had every reason to feel aggrieved.

GER LYONS’ Clondinnery can get us away to the ideal start by landing the first on the programme, the Irish Stallion Farms' EBF Median Auction Maiden, at Dundalk tonight.

IF there was a possible star of the future on show on last night’s all-flat programme at Limerick then it was probably Dermot Weld’s once-raced Bethrah.

THE famous Gigginstown House Stud colours were carried to success by yet another of their promising young horses, Stonemaster, in the Meteor Mobile Novice Hurdle at Limerick yesterday.

FOOTY FACTS is the nap choice to land the opening Killinan Hurdle at Thurles this afternoon.

THERE seems little doubt the Cheltenham Festival will undergo a major alteration as early as 2012.