THE Board of Horse Racing Ireland is to set up a high-powered working group to ensure the industry’s drug testing regime is as robust as possible and operates at the highest international standards.

Locating windfarms close to stud farms could threaten the Irish thoroughbred industry, which employs about 14,000 people, according to a submission made to the Department of the Environment.

WHEN Shergar retired to stud, it was envisaged his bequest to the world would be a glorious lineage of racing legends.

WILLIE MULLINS remained uncertain last night whether Be My Royal, his winner of the Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup, would keep the race in the wake of the rash of positive tests for morphine.

PAUL CARBERY, sidelined with a rib injury since Punchestown on Saturday, resumed with a double on his only two rides at Gowran Park yesterday.