The first of Cork’s three-day meeting takes place this afternoon, and Sr Carthage can make the most of the conditions to take the valuable Cork Handicap for Jim Bolger.

ON a night when David Wachman landed his first ever treble, John Oxx ran two in the Group Three Blue Wind Stakes at Cork, the heavily-backed Zarafsha, partnered by Michael Kinane, and Hazarista, ridden by Fran Berry.

LIVADIYA, who disappointed in her first two runs of the campaign, gets the nap to strike form in the Group Three Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Blue Wind Stakes at Cork tonight.

DERMOT WELD’S rapidly improving Humilis is flying up through the grades and she enjoyed her biggest success to date when taking the Listed Blue Wind Stakes at Cork last night.