The Turf Club announced yesterday that, following a course inspection at Tipperary, the sprint course was unfit for racing due to waterlogging.

Multiple Group One winner Starspangledbanner could attempt to get his career back on track in the www.bettor.com Flying Five Stakes at the Curragh on Sunday.

DANDY Nicholls’ globe-trotting and appropriately named Inxile powered home to land the Listed Galteee Midsummer Sprint Stakes at Cork yesterday.

A statement of the obvious it may be but the ground is the key to all the weekend’s racing and, should today’s featured Betfred Sprint Cup at Haydock get the go-ahead, it’s clear to see why ante-post punters have been drawn to French raider African Rose.