It’s been a testing few weeks on the track, with the unfortunate injury to reigning champ Skywalker Puma and the prospect of ante-post favourite Ballymac Vic exiting the ETS Irish Derby without lining up for Saturday night’s first quarter-final at Shelbourne.

A Mullingar man who became a victim of the construction industry collapse in 2008 is set to break into the Scandinavian market with his healthy beef snacks for dogs.

CURRAHEEN PARK hosts a cracking card tonight, featuring the Tinys Bud Open 550 Stakes final, five races in the Greyhound & Pet World Inter-track Challenge and the semi-finals of the Andy Kelleher Irish Life A2 Stake.