Joseph O’Brien moved further clear in the race for the Flat jockeys’ championship as Francis Of Assisi ran out a clear-cut winner of the Tifrums European Breeders Fund Maiden at Naas.

Neil Callan hopes to have a crack at the Flat jockeys’ championship in 2006 after recording a personal best of 150 winners for the year.

Jamie Spencer is planning to appeal against the four-day ban which would rule him out of the Vodafone Oaks and Coronation Cup.

With the race for the Flat jockeys’ championship all over bar the shouting, punters turned their attentions to the winter game with a vengeance yesterday.

Frankie Dettori pulled further clear in the race for the jockeys’ title with a 55-1 three-timer at Wolverhampton this afternoon.