Jim Bolger continued his remarkable early-season form with a 510/1 treble in Gowran Park yesterday.

A double on Bunairgead and Lady Wingshot for his boss Jim Bolger (who later completed a treble with Miracle Cure) proved a fitting end to the 2012 turf season for teenager Ronan Whelan, who was crowned Champion Apprentice for the first time.

Sky Lantern, confidently handled by Richard Hughes, oozed class as she proved a facile winner of the Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes at the Curragh yesterday.

Unplaced in both the Irish and English Oaks and taking a significant drop in class, the Aidan O’Brien-trained Twirl made all to land the listed Hurry Harriet Stakes in Gowran Park yesterday, beating stable-companion Soon by a length and a half.

The Famous Name roadshow rolled on at Leopardstown last night as the seven-year-old recorded his twelfth win on the Foxrock track when justifying 30/100 favouritism in the Group 3 Jockey Club Of Turkey Meld Stakes.

Blinkered for the first time, the David Wachman-trained Chrysanthemum landed the first stakes race of the new flat season, the Group 3 Lodge Park Stud Park Express Stakes, when proving too strong for favourite Twirl and Princess Sinead in glorious sunshine at the Curragh yesterday.

Trainer Peter Fahey must decide whether to enter Shop Dj for Cheltenham’s David Nicholson Mares Hurdle and a tilt at the mighty Quevega after his stable star won the Download Our Mobile App Now Maiden in Dundalk last night.

JIM BOLGER could be double-handed with Puncher Clynch and Carraiglawn in Sunday’s Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby at the Curragh.

JIM BOLGER will wait until tomorrow morning before deciding on his plans for Saturday’s Audi Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh.

THE presence of Akdarena in today’s Investec Oaks at Epsom is likely to ensure there’s no hiding place for those runners with questions marks over their stamina.

Curtain Call returned to winning ways with a clear-cut victory in the High Chaparral EBF Mooresbridge Stakes at the Curragh today.

JOHNNY Murtagh had to settle for a double, from a strong book of rides, at Dundalk last night, scoring on Royal Entourage and Glowing.

RECHARGE foiled Intense Focus with a game win over the Dewhurst victor in the Leopardstown 2000 Guineas Trial yesterday.

NEW APPROACH will begin his stud career with the title of Horse Racing Ireland’s Horse of the Year for 2008.

New Approach turned in a solid, if unspectacular, display to claim the Tattersalls Millions Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown.

LEOPARDSTOWN’S downpours are swinging the betting pendulum towards New Approach as Jim Bolger’s Derby winner nears his second clash in a fortnight with Duke Of Marmalade in the Tattersalls Millions Irish Champion Stakes.

Jim Bolger has set his sights on a third successive victory in the Darley Dewhurst Stakes at Newmarket on October 18.

Jim Bolger’s unbeaten New Approach has been bought outright by Sheikh Mohammed’s Darley operation and will run in new colours in his three-year-old season.

JIM BOLGER and his stable jockey, Keving Manning, could be the combination to follow at the first stage of Derby weekend at the Curragh this evening.

Jim Bolger drew back the years when saddling Margarula to spring a 33-1 surprise and deny the odds-on favourite Quarter Moon in the Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh.