CAVAN:

DONALD McCAIN’S Overturn will have to defy a stone extra if the versatile performer is to repeat last year’s emphatic victory in the Guinness Galway Handicap Hurdle, the richest National Hunt race in Ireland this year, at Ballybrit on Thursday fortnight.

CHAMPIONSHIP Director Ben Watson expects crowds in excess of 70,000 for the 3 Irish Open that starts over the Killeen Course at Killarney on Thursday.

THE victory of Sonnium, one of three winners for Willie Mullins, in last night’s Summer Festival Beginners Chase at Tipperary owed much to the perseverance of David Casey.

Killarney celebrated the start of their four-day Summer Festival tonight with the official opening of a 1.7million re-development.