TRAINER Shane Murphy's Ovens, Co Cork, kennel is quickly establishing itself as an operation to be reckoned with and the young handler struck again at Curraheen Park on Saturday night when bagging a treble, including both semi-finals of The All Plast Sales Unraced Stake.

THE Hackle Sprig A2 550 Stake swings into action at Youghal tonight and backers can have a winning start by supporting Campions Patch in heat one.

FILM star and former soccer ace Vinnie Jones will be summoned to a hearing in Co Tipperary next month to explain why his coursing greyhound tested positive for drugs.

THE inaugural All Plast Sales Unraced Stake swings into action at Curraheen Park tonight.

MINEOLA FOREMAN posted easily the fastest time so far in the Kudos Catering Super Sprint at Curraheen Park on Saturday night when going within five spots of the track record with a sizzling 17.45 effort in heat 2.

PROVEN WOODS emerged as the top lot at the first Saturday sales at Curraheen Park over the weekend.

THE lightly-raced Huggies Concorde can land the sprint at Youghal.

SPORTS Minister John O’Donoghue yesterday hinted the report into recent controversies in the greyhound industry may take longer than initially anticipated.

SHELBOURNE BECKY duly delivered the goods in the final of the Guinness Trophy at Curraheen Park on Saturday night.

TRAINER Owen McKenna can taste further success in the €7000 to-the-winner Guinness Trophy at Curraheen tonight.

FINE GAEL is to push for the establishment of an independent control body for Bord na gCon in order to remove any suspicion of interference in doping cases.

BELEAGUERED Bord na gCon chairman Paschal Taggart last night again went against the publicly declared request by Sports Minister John O’Donoghue to refrain from public statements about the sacking of Bord na gCon chairman Aidan Tynan.

KNOCKNA KIRKA canenhance his Guinness Trophy claims at Curraheen park tonight by landing the second semi-final.

GREYHOUND owners in the west of Ireland have passed a vote of no confidence in Bord na Gcon chairman Paschal Taggart.

THE lengths to which Paschal Taggart will go to impose his authority within Bord na gCon have been described in court documents as “dangerous” by a fellow board member.

FORMER Bord na gCon officials have cost the State body huge sums in payouts and legal costs as part of ‘confidential’ departure payments following disagreements with the board headed by Paschal Tagart.

Hot toddies were the order of the day again in Clonmel yesterday, another fresh morning.

A FORMER senior civil servant will carry out an independent assessment into Irish Greyhound Board’s doping controls and the manner in which its board dismissed its chief executive last week.

FURTHER details of the controversial sacking of Bord na gCon chief executive Aidan Tynan are expected this week when Sports Minister John O’Donoghue receives an urgent report on the matter.

THE chairman of the Irish Greyhound Board, Paschal Taggart, yesterday insisted its decision to suppress the publication of two positive EPO findings were in the interests of the greyhound industry.

A DOG part-owned by Sports Minister John O’Donoghue was trained by the man at the centre of the doping row ripping greyhound racing apart.

LAST year's winner Student Pass can make a successful opening defence of his crown in heat one of the Guinness Trophy at Curraheen Park tonight.

THE Irish Greyhound Board's annual doping report reveals 6,113 samples were taken from greyhounds during 2005 - with 69 testing positive for banned substances.

THE sacked chief executive of the Irish Greyhound Board (IGB) has alleged, in a letter to Sports Minister John O’Donoghue, that the board’s chairman suppressed two positive cases of EPO doping tests on greyhounds.

STUDENT PASS, who won the stake last year, heads a good-class entry for the Guinness Trophy at Curraheen Park, the draw for which was made at Guinness House, Cork yesterday by Michael Lyons, Southern Sales Manager, Diageo.

THE progressive Best Manners can land the Shannonvale Foods A2 Stakes final at Curraheen Park tonight.

THREE of the four major stakes at the Cork Coursing Club’s Christmas meeting at Blarney, Co. Cork, yesterday resulted in upsets.

FAVOURITES fell like nine pins on the opening day of the Cork Coursing Club’s fixture at Blarney yesterday.

MARWOOD TYPE, owned by the Enniscorthy partnership of Davey Morris and Pee Tobin, proved an impressive winner of the Rex Colgan Memorial Cup for bitches at Castletowngeoghegan yesterday.

LAURELS winner Tyrur Ted met with his fourth defeat in a row as Ahane Lad went through the Tinys Bud Open 550 at Curraheen Park unbeaten when taking Saturday’s decider in 29.73.

THE in-form Candy Store can cheat the draw in the ww.igb.ie A5 Stakes decider at Curraheen Park tonight.

AHANE LAD can overcome a four draw to land a tough second semi-final of the Tinys Bud Open 550 at Curraheen Park tonight.

SOUTH MARSH, trained in Ballygarvan by Barry Lynch, made amends for a very unlucky defeat in the Connacht Cup a few weeks a ago with an impressive win in the Slaney Cup at Enniscorthy yesterday.

HEART RUMBLE can redeem his slightly tarnished reputation by taking the first semi-final of the Irish Examiner Open 750 at Curraheen Park tonight.

CHRISTMAS came early for Curraheen Park bookmakers on Saturday night when all four favourites in the opening round of the Irish Examiner 750 bit the dust - three of them at 1/2 or shorter.

ENGLISH buyers were very active at yesterday’s Cork Greyhound Sales, picking up some choice lots.