Green Mile, 7-1 favourite for the William Hill Galway Plate with totesport, is on target for the race after a facile victory over hurdles on Wednesday.

TONY MARTIN, out of luck with Leg Spinner in the Swinton Hurdle at Haydock on Saturday, was back on the big-race trail at Killarney yesterday when Northern Alliance landed the valuable Murphys’ Irish Stout Handicap Hurdle.

SHANE JACKSON, one of the rising young stars of Irish racing, gave Dark Bolero a copybook drive to land the featured Guinness Handicap Hurdle at Listowel yesterday.

WRONG NUMBER can prove the right choice for punters in the second division of the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Maiden at Gowran Park this evening.