Racing Demon will try to get his season back on track when he faces the starter in the €250,000 Punchestown Guinness Gold Cup later this month.

NICKY Richards hopes Monet’s Garden can justify a short price when he lines up in the Ryanair Chase at the Cheltenham Festival today.

The SuperLeague’s Men’s and Women’s basketball finals take place this coming Sunday in the National Basketball Arena.

Henrietta Knight has reported that Racing Demon is fine following his fall at the fourth last flight in the Lanzarote Hurdle at Kempton on Saturday.

Kauto Star could face the first three home from last season’s totesport Cheltenham Gold Cup in his bid to join the racing legends at Prestbury Park in March.

Kauto Star survived an horrendous mistake at the last fence to run out a hugely-impressive winner of the Stan James King George VI Chase at Kempton.

Henrietta Knight has revealed that Racing Demon is likely to make his seasonal reappearance in the Colin Parker Memorial Intermediate Chase at Carlisle on October 29.

Racing Demon could represent Henrietta Knight in the Stan James King George VI Chase if coming through some lesser tests first.

Racing Demon will have to contend with good ground as he bids to underline his claims for the top novice title in the Irish Independent Arkle Challenge Trophy.

Sam Thomas, the man Henrietta Knight has appointed to partner Racing Demon in the Arkle Trophy at Cheltenham, got a monkey off his back when successfully teaming up with the Wantage trainer at Newbury.

Racing Demon is reported to be “sparkling” as connections count down the days to next month’s Cheltenham Festival.

Racing Demon survived a minor scare to maintain his unbeaten record over fences with a comfortable success in the South-West Racing Club Novices’ Chase at Exeter.

Henrietta Knight is eyeing possible dates at Warwick and Exeter for her leading Arkle Challenge Trophy hope Racing Demon.

BARRY GERAGHTY has come in for the plum ride on Paul Nicholls’ exciting novice chaser Hoo La Baloo in Saturday’s Victor Chandler Handicap Chase.

RACING DEMON, ante-post favourite for the Arkle Trophy, will step up to two-and-a-half miles for the first time at Ludlow on Thursday.

A sharp fall in the shares of drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline today prevented the FTSE 100 Index from closing at a four-year high.

The FTSE 100 Index was held back today by a sharp fall in the share price of market heavyweight GlaxoSmithKline.

Business telecoms firm Thus today unveiled a sharp reduction in first half losses but warned its market would remain challenging in the coming months.

LIMERICK Lions hammered out a sensational 94-83 victory over UCC Demons as defending champions Abrakebabra Tigers kept their title hopes intact with a two point victory over Merry Monk Ballina when the SuperLeague Men’s National Cup got underway at the weekend.

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TWO convicted serial rapists have been hanged publicly in Najafabad in the central Iranian province of Isfahan, the Iran newspaper reported yesterday.

Thus is selling its ClubCall, RaceCall and WeatherCall phone services as part of a £3.5 million disposal.

Britain’s top woman judge today agreed that an injunction protecting James Bulger’s killers was ‘‘inappropriate’’ against Internet service providers.