Listen Dear, trained for the Supreme Horse Racing Club by Willie Mullins, proved the star of Ballinrobe’s final meeting of 2016 yesterday when making an impressive chasing debut in the Connacht Tribune Beginners Chase.

Un De Sceaux could bid to get back on track in the Sodexo Clarence House Chase at Ascot on Saturday following the confirmation stage.

Leading French jockey Jacques Ricou will arrive in Ireland for the first time later this week after signing up for a winter stint riding out for Willie Mullins.

Dermot Weld was out of luck in America on Saturday as Postulation could finish only sixth in the Belmont Derby.

Gordon Elliott, enjoying a tremendous run, struck again when saddling a double with Moonmeister and Fort Smith in Downpatrick yesterday.

On an evening when Mikey Fogarty was concussed and sustained an injury to his right knee in a fall before being removed to nearby South Tipperary General Hospital, the Tom Taaffe-trained Gold Bullet landed the featured Suir Valley Chase in Clonmel.

Connections of Open Eagle remain upbeat after the runaway November Handicap winner suffered an odds-on reverse on his hurdling debut at Punchestown on Sunday.

Runaway November Handicap winner Open Eagle is set to embark upon a career over hurdles this winter after joining Willie Mullins.

Gentleman Duke, trained for JP McManus by Arthur Moore, landed the inaugural running of the John Mulhern Memorial Handicap Hurdle at Ballinrobe’s final meeting of 2014.

Successful at Bellewstown on Thursday evening, the Noel Meade-trained Bose Ikard made it two wins in little more than 24 hours when landing the Walkers Snacks Handicap Hurdle in Down Royal last night, completing a double for Paul Townend.

Royal Ascot hero Pique Sous will bypass the Challenge Stakes at Leopardstown tomorrow with connections giving "serious consideration" to a tilt at next month’s Betfred Ebor at York.

Royal Ascot hero Pique Sous is "very likely" to turn out quickly for the John Smith’s Northumberland Plate at Newcastle on Saturday.

Twelve months on from Rebel Fitz’s Guinness Galway Hurdle victory, Mick Winters shoots for glory once again with Missunited at the Ballybrit track.

Connections of Zuzka have yet to make any firm plans for the rest of the season following her odds-on reverse at Leopardstown last weekend.

Raz De Maree gave trainer Dessie Hughes his first Ladbrokes Munster National when, delivered with a perfectly-timed challenge by Bryan Cooper, he mastered Quietly Fancied and joint favourite Questions Answered in Limerick yesterday.

Noel Meade and Davy Condon (deputising for the injured Paul Carberry) struck on the double with Top Man Michael and Johannisberger in the early action in Roscommon last night.

The Ruby Walsh-ridden Zuzka continued Willie Mullins’ remarkable run of success when justifying 4/9 favouritism in the Irish Stallion Farms Mares Maiden Hurdle at a Sligo meeting which attracted a surprisingly big crowd, with Sligo in Connacht Football final action in Roscommon.

Zuzka should open her account over hurdles in the Irish Stallion Farms Mares Maiden Hurdle in Sligo tomorrow.

Champion trainer Willie Mullins has his string in superb midsummer form and recorded his second double in 24 hours in Roscommon when Letherbelucky and Connaught Manor triumphed last night.

Former champion Paul Carberry has started the new season in blistering form and brought his tally for the campaign to ten with a superb 129/1 treble on Court Lexi, Zaralabad and Victrix Gale in Limerick yesterday.

Willie Mullins extended his impressive strike-rate for the Supreme Horse Racing Club when debutante Letherbelucky justified 13/8 favouritism in the Knockhouse Stud Mares Flat Race, the bumper on last night’s card in Wexford.

Monksland is a best-priced 25/1 for Cheltenham’s Neptune Investments Novice Hurdle following a fluent victory over Lyreen Legend and Dedigout in the Grade 2 Slaney Novice Hurdle in Naas yesterday.

THE victory of even-money favourite Pozyc in the featured Edmond Whelan Memorial Handicap Hurdle proved the highlight of a double for champion trainer Willie Mullins at yesterday’s rescheduled meeting in Listowel.