David O’Meara’s British raider Custom Cut continued his excellent season with an authoritative display in the Invesco Pension Consultants Desmond Stakes at Leopardstown last night.

Michael Halford is not having a great season, with only seven winners and a strike rate of just 5%.

Marsali, an American-bred daughter of More Than Ready, looked an exciting prospect when romping to an impressive win in the Irish Stallion Farms 2-Y-0 Fillies Maiden at Fairyhouse last night.

Michael Halford has made a slow enough start to the flat season, but it might pick up a little with Slipper Orchid in the Lyrath Estate And Spa Summer Ladies Day 13th July Race at Fairyhouse tonight.

Royal Ascot and a return trip to Ireland are under consideration for Kool Kompany after the exciting juvenile struck for Richard Hannon in the Alfred Nobel Rochestown Stakes at Naas yesterday.

Dazzling is fancied to give her Epsom Oaks prospects a boost by landing the Group 3 Irish Stallion Farms EBF Blue Wind Stakes at Naas tonight.

Answered could provide the solution to a cracking renewal of the Group 3 P W McGrath Memorial Stakes at Navan this afternoon.

The frustrating Deep Speed can finally enjoy a turn, and land the nap in the process, in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Maiden at Dundalk tonight.

Michael Hourigan’s Tropical Three, backed at 4-1 in the morning and returned the 13-8 favourite, won the ITBA Fillies Scheme Hurdle at Listowel yesterday.

Colin Keane, arguably the most talented young rider in the country, enjoyed the biggest success of his fledgling career when guiding Brendan Bracken to victory in the Topaz Mile Handicap at Galway last night.

Owega Star must be strongly fancied to make a successful chasing debut in the Connaughton Auctioneers Beginners Chase on today’s mixed card in Roscommon.

We are at least guaranteed one meeting in Ireland this weekend, with Dundalk playing host to eight races tomorrow.

Tommy Stack’s Cape Of Approval is the nap choice to get off the mark at the sixth attempt in the Fillies Friday Night 10th August Maiden at Tipperary this afternoon.

The Eddie Lynam-trained Reglisse stamped herself a filly of significant potential when landing the Irish Stallion Farms 2-Y-0 Fillies Maiden in Leopardstown last night.

Nephrite upset the odds-on Born To Sea with a decisive win over Sea The Stars’ brother in the JRA Killavullan Stakes at Leopardstown.

AIDAN O’Brien introduced another potentially high-class prospect in Kissed to justify strong support in the Irish Stallion Farms 2-Y-0 Fillies Maiden in Navan yesterday.

HAVING registered a double in Group race action at Leopardstown on Saturday, reigning champion Pat Smullen doubled-up again — at Roscommon last evening — completing a double for Dermot Weld on Modern Romance and Midnight Music in ground described as ‘heavy’ before racing commenced before deteriorating further due to persistent rain.

AIDAN O’BRIEN’S So You Think cannot be opposed in the Group 1 Red Mills Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown this evening, where one of the main questions to be answered is just how many winners will the Ballydoyle maestro manage?

TONY MARTIN’S Redera can complete a hat-trick in the Gerry Igoe Land Drainage Handicap Hurdle at Roscommon tonight.

KEVIN PRENDERGAST and Declan McDonogh could well prove the combination to have on your side at Tipperary tonight.

GITANO Hernando and Kieren Fallon swooped late to land the Group 3 Diamond Stakes at Dundalk last night and is set for a return to Group 1 action.

PITTONI is well capable of sending punters home from Listowel today on the perfect note by landing the concluding Slan Abhaile Race.

HOPEFULLY, Listowel will pick up as the week progresses, because what’s on offer this afternoon would have to be described as modest.

Spin and Johnny Murtagh made almost every yard of the running in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Fillies Maiden at the Curragh today.

JOHN OXX continued his excellent start to the new season when winning the listed Vintage Crop Stakes at Navan with Roses For The Lady and completing a double at Gowran Park yesterday.

THE Korean Racing Authority Tyros Stakes has produced its share of stars in recent seasons and the Aidan O’Brien-trained Cape Blanco produced an impressive display to land last night’s renewal at Leopardstown, a performance which stamped him another potentially high-class colt.

TONY MARTIN breathed a huge sigh of relief after his Aggie’s Lad won the Seamus Weldon Novice Chase at Killarney last night.

LONE British raider Muhannak, ridden by Pat Smullen, landed the listed Diamond Stakes at Dundalk last night.

NOEL MEADE’S Skylancer can take the second division of the Charlie Chute Memorial Maiden Hurdle at the final stage of the Listowel Festival this afternoon.

THE Group 3 Tyros Stakes at Leopardstown tonight may have only attracted four runners, but promises a terrific clash between Cuis Ghaire and Rip Van Winkle.

BACK TO BID, from the in-form Noel Meade yard, can land the nap in the two mile October Maiden at Navan this afternoon.

PACO JACK is fancied to keep his unbeaten record over flights in the Devon Inn three-year-old Hurdle at the first stage of the Listowel Festival this afternoon.

AIDAN O’BRIEN’S Nell Gwyn, a poor fifth of seven behind Four Sins at the Curragh on her debut Curragh, but a full-sister to Rock Of Gibraltar, was all the rage for the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Fillies Maiden at the first stage of the Tralee Festival last evening and duly obliged.

RUBY WALSH can strike a major blow in his quest to be champion jockey by landing a double at Tramore tomorrow with Natural Storm and Macs Flamingo.

DAVID WACHMAN’S horses are motoring well and his Shutruk-Nahhunte is napped to land the Tote Ireland 75th Anniversary Auction Race at Galway this afternoon.

JOHN OXX and Michael Kinane, who have made a fine start to the campaign, can combine for a double at Gowran Park this afternoon, assuming the meeting passes a 7.00 am inspection.

SOLERINA, returning from a two months break and backed from 4-6 to 1-2, ran her rivals ragged to land the John Harney Bookmaker Race at Tipperary last night.

MOST impressive performance at Killarney last night came when Sandy Owen and Jamie Spencer toyed with The Last Hurrah and Michael Kinane in the River Rock Race.

ONE intrepid layer went 1-2 Aidan O’Brien’s newcomer, In Excelsis, in the Irish Stallion Farms’ Maiden at Tipperary last night and was quickly accommodated.

DERMOT WELD, a man with a fine record at the track over many years, can set punters on their way by landing a double at the first stage of the Tralee Festival today.