The annual challenge between Irish and Australian national hunt jockeys takes place at the end of the month and the lucky quartet representing the Tricolour were named in Galway yesterday.

National Heritage Week

RUBY WALSH and Willie Mullins continued in irresistible form when sharing a treble at Navan yesterday, scoring with odds-on shots Lilywhitedancer and Barker and marker-drifter Palace Merano, which needed all of Walsh’s strength to land the Irish Stallion Farms Novice Hurdle.

More than 30 Irish films are lined up to feature at a Spanish festival.

RUBY WALSH makes a rare Saturday appearance in this country at Navan today and has to be fancied to guide Nickname to yet another success in the Grade 3 Russell Restaurant An Uaimh Chase.