MACS JOY has been installed as favourite to confirm his position as a leading Champion Hurdle hope with victory in the Red Mills Hurdle at Gowran on Saturday.

THOROUGHLY enjoyed Monday's Irish Grand National meeting at Fairyhouse and not just because a few quid came winging this way through Numbersixvalverde.

TONY MULLINS, fresh from a splendid Christmas, topped up at Tramore yesterday when Barrow Drive won the featured Wilf Dooly Chase in the hands of Barry Geraghty.