Ante-post favourite Bobs Worth spearheads 11 declarations for the Betfred Cheltenham Gold Cup on Friday.

Rose Angel, in the care of Peter Casey, best known as the trainer of Flemenstar and for a colourful RTÉ interview with Tracy Piggott, can land the bookings@dundalkstadium.com Median Auction Maiden on the all-weather tonight.

Ruby Walsh has reaffirmed his intention to ride Hurricane Fly in the Stan James Champion Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival next month.

Flemenstar’s owner Stephen Curran is adamant his horse did not show his true colours in his defeat to Sir Des Champs at Leopardstown on Saturday.

It was billed as a day of destiny and so it proved.

It was a weekend of firsts for Irish champion jockey, Davy Russell.

Sir Des Champs finally got the better of Flemenstar to claim Grade One glory in the Hennessy Gold Cup at Leopardstown.

Officials at Leopardstown have no real concerns about the weather ahead of what promises to be a fantastic meeting at the Foxrock venue on Saturday.

Last year’s Grand National third Seabass will make his seasonal re-appearance in the Irish Hennessy at Leopardstown on February 9, rather than defend his crown in the Leopardstown Handicap Chase on Saturday.

Rubi Light was suffering from a lung infection when he trailed home a well-beaten third behind Flemenstar and Sir Des Champs in the John Durkan Memorial Punchestown Chase.

Rubi Light was suffering from a lung infection when he trailed home a well-beaten third behind Flemenstar and Sir Des Champs in the John Durkan Memorial Punchestown Chase.

Rubi Light will be scoped on the gallops this morning after stopping very quickly on his seasonal reappearance at Punchestown last weekend.

Aidan O’Brien has reported Camelot to be fully recovered from his colic scare, declaring that the triple Classic winner has developed physically during the off-season and will campaign primarily from eight to ten furlongs in 2013.

Trainer Peter Casey has no doubt three miles is well within Flemenstar’s range following his fantastic performance at Punchestown on Sunday.

The Gold Cup dream is still very much alive following Flemenstar’s spectacular defeat of Sir Des Champs in the Grade 1 John Durkan Memorial Chase in Punchestown yesterday.

Big Zeb could run at Cork next Sunday ahead of his bid to win the Paddy Power Dial-A-Bet Chase at Leopardstown a fourth time.

A faultless, front-running display by Flemenstar in the Grade 2 Irish Form Book Fortria Chase proved the highlight of yesterday’s action in Navan.

Shop Dj, on her return to fences, is the nap choice in the John Fowler Memorial EBF Mares’ Chase at Fairyhouse this evening.

The Ladbrokes Irish Grand National is one of the most precious jewels in Ireland’s racing crown, and it was Lion Na Bearnai who came up trumps, returning at odds of 33/1, with the crowds happy to cheer him into the winners’ enclosure with his popular local trainer Tom Gibney.

Flemenstar exacted resounding revenge on Bog Warrior when landing the Grade 3 Naas Directors Novice Chase in Naas yesterday.

The Imperial Cup (3.15) provides a nice teaser to the Cheltenham Festival and whoever solves the Sandown puzzle can go into next week’s four-day fiesta with a spring in their step.

Two of Ireland’s best novice chasers could clash at Naas on Sunday as Bog Warrior and Flemenstar have been entered in the Naas Directors Plate Novice Chase.

NEXT month a number of really talented horses will arrive at Cheltenham with no more than an outside chance of winning.

It was the morning after the night before and one question was exercising the nation and for once it wasn’t the bondholders, the bank bailout or the troika.

RTÉ presenter Tracy Piggott got more than she bargained for yesterday in a post-race interview.

Flemenstar has run out a convincing winner of the Frank Ward Solicitors Arkle Novice Chase at Leopardstown.

Blackstairmountain and Flemenstar are the two leading names among eight possible runners in the Frank Ward Solicitors Arkle Novice Chase at Leopardstown on Sunday.

Noel Meade’s Monksland booked his ticket to the Cheltenham Festival with a runaway victory in the Slaney Novice Hurdle at Naas.

JOCKEY Alan Crowe completed back-to-back wins in the valuable Ladbrokes.com Troytown Handicap Chase at Navan yesterday, getting the Christy Ruche-trained 10/1 shot Groody Hill up close home to foil Ad Idem, with Cross Appeal third after making a costly mistake at the final fence.

Groody Hill capped a red-letter day for owner JP McManus with a last-gasp victory in the Ladbrokes.com Troytown Handicap Chase at Navan.

THE trip is on the short side for her, the ground may be a shade quick and she has let us down on two occasions, but Killultagh Queen is still the nap choice to land the Mares’ Beginners Chase at Clonmel this evening.