RUBY WALSH was quite brilliant in driving Bishopsfurze to victory in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Fund Beginners Chase at Thurles yesterday, one of three winners for the former champion jockey and Willie Mullins.

PAUL CARBERRY proved an unlikely hero at Thurles yesterday, two days after his controversial 30-day ban started.

THE layers got a screamer of a result in the Glen Chase at Thurles yesterday when 33-1 shot Florida Express beat 5-4 favourite Scotsirish and there was certainly no fluke about it.

WILLIE MULLINS’ Our Ben got back on the winning trail when outstaying long-absent Afistfullofdollars in the Glen Chase at Thurles yesterday.

THURLES may be right at the bottom of the Racing Post’s list of what a racecourse should be, understandably, but is top of the hit-parade as far as racegoers are concerned.

MICHAEL DARCY took the riding honours on a day of shocks at Thurles yesterday, recording a double on Baily Breeze and Just.

IT’S hard to keep a good man down. On Saturday Michael Hourigan kept hitting the bar, but roared back to the top of the tree at Cork yesterday when the progressive A New Story stormed away with the Paddy Power Grand National.

PAUL CARBERRY, in second spot behind Ruby Walsh in the jockeys’ championship, began his afternoon at Thurles yesterday with a smooth success aboard The Screamer in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Beginners Chase, a contest run for the most part in thick fog.

TOM TAAFFE’S Emotional Moment produced a smooth performance to land the Horse and Jockey Beginners ’Chase at Thurles yesterday. Clearly benefitting from his first run of the campaign at Punchestown, the six-year-old proved far too good for this opposition.

FRONT–RUNNING tactics paid off for Silent Native as he held off Golden Beacon in an exciting finish to the Powerstown Handicap Hurdle at Clonmel last evening.

COOLDINE PRINCE, a winner of his last two races over flights, gets the vote to make it a hat-trick when he contests the Powerstown Handicap Hurdle at Clonmel this evening.

ARTHUR MOORE’S Jurado Express produced a spectacular display to make a winning debut over fences in the Horse and Jockey Beginners ’Chase at Thurles yesterday.

CHRISTY ROCHE, fresh from a splendid weekend, can supply punters with some more much needed readies by saddling Silver Steel to land the Rock Of Cashel Hurdle at Thurles this afternoon.

CONOR O’DWYER completed a double at Thurles yesterday, enjoying armchair rides aboard Scarthy Lad and Eskimo Jack.