Hero of Saturday’s Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh, highlight of a weekend which yielded four wins, seven-times champion Pat Smullen partnered Lean And Keen to victory in the featured www.thetote.com Handicap in heavy ground in Ballinrobe last night.

A great weekend got even better for trainer Hugo Palmer, when his Home Of The Brave ran out a most impressive winner of the Group 3 Friarstown Stud Minstrel Stakes, to supplement Covert Love’s success in the Darley Irish Oaks just 24 hours earlier.

Covert Love gave Newmarket trainer Hugo Palmer an early wedding present with his first Classic triumph in the Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh on Saturday.

It’s Oaks day at the Curragh, and Curvy looks capable of justifying favouritism in the feature, but it’s Final Frontier who gets the nap to make a successful step up to Group 3 level in the Jebel Ali Racecourse & Stables Anglesey Stakes.

David Wachman believes Curvy will have to step up again if she is to supplement her Royal Ascot success in the Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh today.

The progressive, Aidan O’Brien-trained Fields Of Athenry proved a hugely impressive winner of the listed Challenge Stakes as continuous rain turned the ground yielding to soft in Leopardstown last night.

Diamondsandrubies is bound for the Darley Irish Oaks after a sparkling display to hold off Legatissimo in a driving finish to the Sea The Stars Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh.

Curvy put herself in the frame for a crack at the Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby with a cosy victory in the Ribblesdale Stakes at Royal Ascot yesterday.

Today’s Group 1 Markel Insurance Nassau Stakes looks an ordinary renewal of the race and there are sufficient doubts about those at the top of the market to look down the line for some value.

Odds-on favourite Gleneagles and 14/1 shot Jack Naylor grabbed the Group 3 glory in last night’s two-year-old twin features at Leopardstown.

Aidan O’Brien’s Royal Ascot heroine Bracelet fought off stable companion Tapestry and British raider Volume to clinch Classic glory in a thrilling renewal of the Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh on Saturday night.

Bracelet gave trainer Aidan O’Brien a fourth victory in the Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh with a determined effort in the hands of Colm O’Donoghue.

Solving this afternoon’s Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh would have been so easy had the Epsom heroine, Taghrooda, as was widely anticipated, met the engagement.

Dermot Weld feels being on home soil gives Tarfasha a favourite’s chance in the Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh today.

Ana O’Brien, daughter of all-conquering trainer Aidan and younger sister to Derby-winning rider Joseph, will become the first female jockey to ride in the Darley Irish Oaks tomorrow.

Leading owner Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum will wait until later in the week before deciding whether to let star fillies Taghrooda and Tarfasha lock horns for a second time in Saturday’s Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh.

Hot favourite Leading Light narrowly denied defending champion Estimate in a pulsating climax to the Gold Cup at Royal Ascot yesterday.

Chicquita will be aimed at the Prix Vermeille and possibly the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe after surviving a dramatic drift to her left to land the Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh on Saturday night.

Intello, France’s leading three-year-old colt, remains on course for a possible mouthwatering clash with Dawn Approach in the Prix Jacques le Marois at Deauville on August 11.

Johnny Murtagh will ride French challenger Chicquita in the Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh on Saturday evening.

Dawn Approach will clash with Toronado for a second time when the pair lock horns in the Qipco Sussex Stakes at Glorious Goodwood on July 31.

Jim Bolger is mulling a crack at the Darley Irish Oaks with Monday’s Lenebane Stakes winner Bunairgead.

Declaration Of War will join stablemate Mars in tomorrow’s Group 1 showpiece, the Coral-Eclipse at Sandown, after a final field of seven was unveiled.

Ralph Beckett continues to mull over the next port of call for Secret Gesture after she took second place behind stablemate Talent in the Investec Oaks.

Frankie Dettori has been appointed as the new retained rider for leading owner Sheikh Joaan Al Thani.

Alive Alive Oh will carry a degree of stable confidence as she puts her Darley Irish Oaks credentials on the line in the Oxigen Environmental Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh on Sunday.

John Oxx reports Saddler’s Rock to be in top condition ahead of the Gold Cup at Royal Ascot on Thursday week.

Alive Alive Oh is in line to make her next appearance in the Ribblesdale Stakes at Royal Ascot.

The Aidan O’Brien-trained Say should open her account in tonight’s finale in Cork, the Irish Stallion Farms Fillies Maiden.

JT McNamara, the amateur jockey badly injured in a fall at the Cheltenham Festival, was transferred to hospital in Dublin yesterday having been treated in Bristol since March.

This year’s Gain Horse Feeds Irish St Leger will be run in an early-evening slot in a bid to heighten the profile of the Group One race.

Twenty four hours is a long time in racing.

Great Heavens showed a tremendous turn of foot to win the Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh.

Princess Highway is fancied to continue her rapid rise up the ladder by landing the Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh tomorrow.

Having Davy Russell on your side has been paying rich dividends for quite a while now and he can again reward his numerous supporters by guiding Birzali to success in the opening Follow Kilbeggan On Facebook Maiden Hurdle at the Co Westmeath track tonight.

Curragh manager Paul Hensey is anticipating soft ground for this weekend’s Darley Irish Oaks meeting.

Great Heavens and Colliding Worlds have been supplemented for the Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh on Sunday.

Great Heavens and Colliding Worlds have been supplemented for the Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh on Sunday.

Nathaniel’s full-sister Great Heavens could be supplemented for the Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh on July 22.

Camelot has been given an entry for the Neptune Investment Management Great Voltigeur Stakes at York on August 22.

Izzi Top, confidently handled by jockey-in-form William Buick, brushed aside the challenge of favourite Sapphire to give trainer John Gosden a third win in the Group 1 Barclays Bank Ireland Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh yesterday.

Princess Highway is set to tackle the Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh after emulating her dam Irresistible Jewel in storming to victory in the Ribblesdale Stakes at Royal Ascot.

Princess Highway will attempt to emulate her dam Irresistible Jewel in Royal Ascot’s Ribblesdale Stakes following a convincing win in the Group 3 Irish Stallion Farms Blue Wind Stakes in Naas.

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