"He’s the real article. You just don’t do that to a Corn na Feile winner here at Clonmel," was co-commentator Damien Lonergan’s summation of the third-round course in which Timber House annihilated kennel companion Serene Angel to earn a place in this afternoon’s quarter-finals of the Boylesports.com Coursing Derby at Powerstown Park.

We’ve spoken before in these pages about the earthiness of those who go to Clonmel every year for the annual National Coursing Meeting, of how grounded they are in nature, how self-sufficient.

BARRACK BIMBO (Bexhill Eoin-Barrack Court), owned in Tournafulla, Co Limerick by young Shane Curtin, served notice to all opponents in the Greyhound and Pet World Oaks next month she is ready, willing and well able to challengeall-comers.

POWERSTOWN Park punters, already reeling from a host of shock results in the classics, will this morning be greeted with the disappointing news that favourite Coolcastle Point (Trajectory-Wake Up Time), is a shock withdrawal from the Derby.

Tom Higgins