Trainer Michael Halford started the New Year at Dundalk in superb form last night, completing a 105/1 treble with Settle For Red, Victors Beach and Senyuman, ridden by apprentices Conor Hoban and Shane Kelly respectively, deputising for suspended stable-jockey Shane Foley.

It’s a fair way from Carrigtwohill, Co Cork to Dundalk, but Timjoe can justify another trip up the motorway by landing the concluding Fund Raising Made Easy At |Dundalk Handicap on the all-weather tonight.

Always a force at the track, Michael Halford completed a double with favourites Rummaging and Won Diamond in Dundalk last night.

Trainer Michael Halford, who declared on Thursday: “I have a team of fresh horses ready to run here over the next few weeks” dominated last night’s handicap action in Dundalk, saddling a superb four-timer at cumulative odds of almost 682/1.

Ballydoyle debutant Ernest Hemingway proved the undoubted star of last night’s action in Dundalk, romping to an impressive ten lengths win in the Irish Stallion Farms Maiden to spark a double for Aidan and Joseph O’Brien.

Ahaaly, trained for Hamdan Al Maktoum by Kevin Prendergast, built on her promising debut run against Shebella at Limerick when romping to an impressive odds-on victory in the www.dundalkstradium.com Maiden in Dundalk last night.

Shane Foley celebrated his return from Dubai by recording a double, on If Per Chance and Johnnys Legacy, at Dundalk last night.

In double form two weeks ago, Jim Bolger was on the mark again at Dundalk last night when Kevin Manning provided him with another brace of winners, Naoise and Gort Na Mona.

WITH stable-jockey Kevin Manning on duty in Dubai (he rode Hurricane Havoc to finish fourth in the Group 2 Cape Verdi yesterday), Rory Cleary proved an able deputy when providing Jim Bolger with a double, on Heir To The Mint and General Bunching at Dundalk last night.

DOUBLES for champion jockey Johnny Murtagh and Niall McCullagh, along with trainer Eddie Lynam, proved the highlights of Dundalk’s first meeting of 2012 last night.

IT was a mixed night for teenager Colin Keane at Dundalk last night, completing the first double of his career, on Mountain Coral and Knockgraffon Lad, and picking up a three-day careless riding ban following an incident in the apprentice handicap.

THE potentially smart Slade Power looked the class-act on last night’s card at Dundalk, initiating a double for in-form trainer Eddie Lynam in the opening two-year-old maiden.

WINNER of the valuable October handicap at Naas last month, Celebrity Sevi made his listed-race breakthrough when battling tenaciously to thwart Priomhbhean and Super Say the Carlingford Stakes at Dundalk last night.

JOHNNY Murtagh will lead reigning champion Pat Smullen 81-78 heading for the final flat meeting of the season at Leopardstown tomorrow.

JOHNNY MURTAGH took a giant step towards clinching a fifth Jockeys Championship when completing a double for Michael Halford, on Katherine Lee and Eastern Rules, at Dundalk last night.

COOLMORE sire Dylan Thomas made an immediate impact with his first runner, Snowflake Dancer, which prevailed in a blanket finish to the opening two-year-old maiden at Dundalk last night, and then survived a Stewards Enquiry.

THE rapidly-improving Boynagh Joy proved a shock 12/1 winner of the listed Cooley Fillies Stakes at Dundalk last night.