BEEF OR SALMON, whose jumping was suspect on his seasonal reappearance at Clonmel, will have a racecourse school this morning in preparation for Sunday’s Grade One John Durkan Memorial ‘Chase at Punchestown.

A blunder at the final fence cost Beef Or Salmon dear in the Clonmel Oil Chase today as British raider Edredon Bleu made virtually all the running for a famous success.

THIRTY-NINE horses remain in the €170,000 Powers Gold Label Irish Grand National at Fairyhouse on Easter Monday.

Davids Lad is out of the Grand National after an appeal by connections to Irish Turf Club failed following a near-five hour hearing.

Davids Lad is out of the Martell Cognac Grand National after an appeal by connections to Irish Turf Club failed following a near-five hour hearing this afternoon.