Frankel is the star name among nine confirmations for the JLT Lockinge Stakes at Newbury on Saturday.

The Derby and Oaks Trials at Lingfield this afternoon will be run on the all weather track and that appears to have been quite well received.

OWNER Patsy Byrnerecorded a double at Macroom yesterday, taking the All-Aged Stake with Toast Master, which he owns in partnership with bookmaker Berkie Browne, and the Reserve Derby Trial Stake with Breaking Tide.

MUCKY EAMONN, jointly owned and nominated by Don and Gerard Buckley from Macroom, Co Cork and trained by James Kelleher, was a worthy winner of the Agnes O’Brien Cork Cup at Blarney yesterday when easily beating the Gerry Griffin trained long-odds favourite, Sound Pistol, by eight lengths in the final.

HIGH and Mighty, who last season won three All Aged Cups (Listowel, Rathkeale and Ballymena) in his second season, ran away with the Listowel All Age Cup in Rushy Meadows yesterday.

Gile Na Greine, third in the 1000 Guineas at Newmarket last weekend, is among 19 entries for the Tattersalls Musidora Stakes at York on Wednesday.

Johnny Murtagh went a long way to confounding those critics today by guiding Age Of Aquarius to the gamest of triumphs in the totesport.com Derby Trial at Lingfield.

CATUNDA Ashmore, who won his trial stake at Galbally last season and was beaten in the semi-final of the Boylesports Derby by Sandy Sea, returned to the Limerick venue yesterday and looks poised to take the Galbally Stakes, judged on his showing in the opening round yesterday.

AFTER the opening round of both sixty four runner Derby and Oaks Trial Stakes on the opening day of Knockgraffon yesterday, it was very much a case of all to play.

ANOTHER fascinating ingredient was yesterday added to the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe when Ralph Beckett’s Oaks winner Look Here emerged a surprise contender.

RALPH BECKETT is favouring a crack at the Ladbrokes St Leger with Look Here rather than trying to complete an Oaks double.

LOCH Bo Butch is the star turn at the two-day Cork Cup coursing meeting which starts at Blarney on St Stephen’s Day.

THE Har Duff All-Aged Bitch Stake at the Nenagh/Borris In Ossory coursing meeting is up for grabs after yesterday’s opening round.

CHASING Glory, jointly owned by Seamus Maher from Claremorris, Co. Mayo and Michael O’Donovan from Kilkee, Co. Clare, who won his trial stake here last season, but was surprisingly beaten by 50-1 outsider Be Over Quick in the first round of the Boylesports Derby, returned to Newcastlewest yesterday to take the Munster Cup.

Alan Swinbank admits fairytale filly Turbo Linn faces an uphill task when she bids to extend her unbeaten run to nine in the Goffs/DBS Park Hill Stakes at Doncaster tomorrow.

Recent Lingfield scorer Kayah will be supplemented for the Vodafone Oaks at Epsom next Friday.

Marcus Tregoning can still dream of back-to-back victories in the Vodafone Derby after Aqaleem emerged as a possible for the Epsom Classic.

Marcus Tregoning’s spell in the doldrums ended in scintillating fashion at Lingfield as last year’s Vodafone Derby-winning trainer unleashed another Classic candidate in the shape of Aqaleem.

Kayah will bid to maintain her unbeaten record when she faces six rivals in the totesport.com Oaks Trial at Lingfield tomorrow.

Godolphin have recruited last week’s Newbury maiden winner Folk Opera from Michael Jarvis’s yard.

Christophe Soumillon warmed up for what the jockey hopes will be one of the most important months of his career when capturing both the Derby and Oaks Trials at Lingfield on Linda’s Lad and Sindirana.

THREE of the four major stakes at the Cork Coursing Club’s Christmas meeting at Blarney, Co. Cork, yesterday resulted in upsets.

MARWOOD TYPE, owned by the Enniscorthy partnership of Davey Morris and Pee Tobin, proved an impressive winner of the Rex Colgan Memorial Cup for bitches at Castletowngeoghegan yesterday.

The O’Connor family from Saleen, Tarbert, brought off a very nice double at Ballyheigue.

Tom Higgins

A £5m (€7m) refurbishment of Lingfield racecourse is to begin in the New Year.

THERE was double delight for John Condon at the Cappoquin, Clogheen & District coursing meeting yesterday.

ALAMSHAR, a leading ante-post fancy for the Vodafone Derby, is one of 32 entries for the Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial Stakes at Leopardstown on Sunday.

AFTER the opening two rounds of the Oaks Trial Stake at the three-day Galbally coursing meeting, it is still hard to make a call on which of the surviving 16 will book one of the last precious few tickets to Clonmel.