Richard Hannon’s Kool Kompany, so disappointing at Royal Ascot in the Coventry, streaked away with the Group 2 Gain Railway Stakes at the Curragh on Saturday.

Dublin-based drug development firm Trino Therapeutics has received €9m in additional funding — the second major investment in a Trinity College campus company in as many months.

AIDAN O’BRIEN, not a trainer one would readily associate with Galway, has prospects of a treble at Ballybrit this afternoon.

Brewer Scottish & Newcastle today said encouraging sales of its leading beer brands had boosted the business during a year of transformation.