Cork All Star will bid to bounce back to winning ways in the Deloitte Novice Hurdle at Leopardstown on February 10.

THE rapidly improving Arthur Moore-trained Mansony continued his surge to the top when landing the Grade 1 Paddy Power Dial-A-Bet Chase at Leopardstown yesterday.

Tony Mullins believes the prospect of good ground will boost the chance of Aranleigh in the paddypower.com Future Champions Novice Hurdle at Leopardstown tomorrow.

Champion Bumper scorer Cork All Star will attempt to get back to winning ways at Leopardstown next Thursday.

Sophocles is likely to bypass an engagement at Gowran on Friday and wait for an opening at Leopardstown over Christmas.

Noel Meade and Paul Carberry prolonged their run of red-hot form with a Grade One double at Fairyhouse.

Cork All Star, winner of the Champion Bumper at the Cheltenham Festival last March, registered a facile success as he made his first appearance over timber in the Winter Festival 2007 Maiden Hurdle at Fairyhouse.

SHANE JACKSON, one of the rising young stars of Irish racing, gave Dark Bolero a copybook drive to land the featured Guinness Handicap Hurdle at Listowel yesterday.

JESSICA HARRINGTON hopes Macs Joy can return to the same form he was in when winning last year’s ACCBank Champion Hurdle as connections prepare for a repeat bid.

Aranleigh, who finished third in the Weatherbys Champion Bumper, is unlikely to run again this term.

LEGENDARY gambler Harry Findlay landed a massive touch when Denman produced a sensational display to overpower his rivals in the Royal and SunAlliance Chase at Cheltenham yesterday, writes Pat Keane.

BARRY GERAGHTY, at Anfield last night to watch Liverpool play Barcelona in the Champions’ League, confesses to being “puzzled” by Macs Joy’s shock defeat to Newmill in the Red Mills Trial Hurdle at Gowran Park last month.