Solita, locally trained by Paul Nolan, gave punters plenty to cheer about in sunny Wexford yesterday as she came from last to first under Luke Dempsey to justify favouritism in the Courtown Rated Novice Hurdle.

ON a low-key, pre-Royal Ascot weekend, Aidan O’Brien and Johnny Murtagh doubled-up with two of Ballydoyle’s lesser-lights, Emperor Hadrian and Ferdinand Magellan, at Navan last night.