Mick Halford is charting a possible path to the Palmerstown House Estate Irish St Leger with his two smart stayers Certerach and Dabadiyan.

Dual Galway Festival winner Rebel Fitz is likely to miss this year’s meeting after suffering a minor setback.

Channel 4 remains "proud" of its Royal Ascot coverage, despite dwindling audiences throughout the week.

Dermot Weld’s described the result as “very appropriate” after Voleuse De Coeurs landed the listed Vintage Crop Stakes in convincing style in Navan yesterday.

Johnny Murtagh is better placed than most to assess Saturday’s Irish Field St Leger at the Curragh as he bids to get the better of former ally Fame And Glory on the Mark Johnston-trained Jukebox Jury.

Godolphin’s Ascot Gold Cup runner-up Opinion Poll will bid to secure a deserved first victory of the campaign in the Artemis Goodwood Cup on Thursday.

ROYAL ASCOT heroine Banimpire and multiple Group One-winning mare Snow Fairy feature among the entries for the bet365 Lancashire Oaks at Haydock on Saturday.

PROFOUND Beauty looks primed to give Dermot Weld a seventh Irish Field St Leger at the Curragh today.

PROFOUND Beauty will face seven rivals as she bids for a first Group One success in the Irish Field St Leger at the Curragh this weekend.

Profound Beauty will face seven rivals as she bids for a first Group One success in the Irish Field St Leger at the Curragh.

ROSES For The Lady may not quite have rediscovered the form of last year so far in 2010, but a bold bid looks assured in the DFS Park Hill Stakes at Doncaster today.

GLOR NA MARA can land what promises to a very informative Group 2 Galileo EBF Futurity Stakes at the Curragh this afternoon.

YOUMZAIN continued his luckless run as he lost out to Plumania in a thrilling photo-finish to the Grand Prix De Saint-Cloud yesterday.

GROUND conditions are likely to dictate which race Dermot Weld’s Profound Beauty lines up in at next Sunday’s high-profile meeting at the Curragh.

HIGH-CLASS mare Profound Beauty proved herself on course for a return to Flemington in November, for the Melbourne Cup, when turning over Ballydoyle hot-pot Age Of Aquarius in the listed Saval Beg Stakes at Leopardstown yesterday.

Mad Rush is reported to be sore after trailing home last of the five runners in the Curragh Cup on Saturday.

Alan Swinbank could be double-handed in the John Porter Stakes at Newbury next week as both Turbo Linn and Alfie Flits are being aimed at the race.

Collier Hill capped what has been a glorious second half of the season when leading home a clean sweep for the European raiders in the Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Vase at Sha Tin.

Vinnie Roe will bid to firmly entrench himself in the history books at the Curragh tomorrow when trying to land the Irish Field St Leger for the fifth consecutive year.

Melbourne Cup hero Media Puzzle could make his long-awaited reappearance in the Group Three Meld Stakes at Leopardstown in just two weeks’ time.

Martin Kelly

TAKE a chance on The Great Gatsby upsetting hot-pot, Dalakhani, in tomorrow’s Budweiser Irish Derby at the Curragh.

Aidan O’Brien has withdrawn his two runners from today’s meeting at Royal Ascot on account of the prevailing fast ground.