MEAN LAE should prove tough to beat in the seven-furlong Irish Stallion Farms Fillies Maiden at Naas tonight.

ARD Na Greine landed the listed Martin Molony Stakes for Jim Bolger and Kevin Manning at Limerick last night and will now contest next Sunday’s Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby at the Curragh.

YOU cannot imagine too many patrons making the effort to get to Gowran Park tonight, given that four of the seven races are essentially impossible to solve handicaps, three of them particularly low grade.

BATTLE AXE proved a 25/1 shocker in the featured Shamrock Handicap Chase on a day of surprises at Gowran Park yesterday.

Samba school Salgueiro was crowned champion of Rio de Janeiro's fiercely competitive Carnival parades, beating off formidable opponents and overcoming a shooting that left three dead outside its headquarters just months ago.