Ante-post betting has never held any great attraction for this observer, but have to say the 25-1 on offer with some of the firms about Leading Light for next weekend’s Prix de L’Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp was crying out to be taken.

Mango Diva gave Michael Stoute a second Denny Cordell Lavarack & Lanwades Stud Fillies Stakes win in five years with a cosy success in the Group Three event at Gowran yesterday.

The Fugue struck a blow for the fillies with an emphatic victory in the Red Mills Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown.

Before the off of today’s Red Mills Irish Champion Stakes (6.50) and Leopardstown, the weather will have had its say.

Leading rider at Royal Ascot last week, Johnny Murtagh again stole the show at the Curragh yesterday when giving the Roger Varian-trained 10/1 shot Ambivalent a superb front-running rider to land the Group 1 Oxigen Environmental Pretty Polly Stakes.

Jim Bolger could run both Loch Garman and Trading Leather in the Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial at Leopardstown on May 12.

Jim Bolger insists no formal decision has yet been made over where Dawn Approach is trained next season.