Odds-on favourite Art Of Logistics is impossible to oppose in the €10 Admission Rated Chase, the opening event at Punchestown’s final meeting of the season.

Backed into 1/2 favourite, the J P McManus-owned Shield delivered for Aidan and Joseph O’Brien in the two-mile bookigs@dundalkstadium.com Maiden in Dundalk last night.

On her first ride on the unique track, Jane Mangan partnered he Peter Fahey-trained mare Saratoga Baby to an emphatic win in the Marquees Nationwide Amateur Handicap at sunny Laytown yesterday.

Former British champion Ryan Moore’s trip to the Curragh proved worthwhile yesterday when Dank, trained by Michael Stoute, proved an emphatic winner of the Group 2 Kilboy Estates Stakes.

Narrowly denied over course and distance last Saturday, the Aidan O’Brien-trained Wilshire Boulevard opened his account at the third attempt when justifying odds-on favouritism in the Irish Stallion Farms Median Auction 2-Y-0 Maiden in Navan last night.

Battle Of Marengo produced a workmanlike performance to land the Juddmonte Beresford Stakes and provide Aidan and Joseph O’Brien with the middle leg a of a treble at the Curragh yesterday

Trainer Tim Doyle, successful with 20/1 shot Peinora in Tipperary earlier, completed a notable across-the-card double when well-backed Mullowney proved best in the Ballinrobe Golf Club Maiden Hurdle in Balinrobe last night, beating favourite Ted Dolly convincingly by almost five lengths to give 7lb. claimer Martin Burke his first win since December.

Marvada gave trainer Ken Condon his second group-race success when swooping late, under Shane ‘Dusty’ Foley, to land the Group 3 Brownstown Stakes in Naas last night.

Having drawn a blank on the fourth day of Royal Ascot in the afternoon, Aidan O’Brien gave punters plenty to enjoy when recording a treble with Kingston Jamaica, Battle Of Saratoga and Demurely in Limerick last night.

Goldplated, seventh to Sapphire in the Group 3 Kerry Group Noblesse Stakes in Cork on Sunday, landed the four runner Irelands Own Race for trainer John Murphy in Sligo last night.

Highlight of the flat action in Navan last night was the return to form of the Tracy Collins-trained Arctic in the Follow Navan On Facebook Handicap, the grey five-year-old registering his first success since landing the Group 3 Round Tower Stakes at the Curragh as a juvenile.

The Gordon Elliott-trained Discoteca was an impressive winner of the Tipperary Water 4-Y-0 Hurdle at Ballinrobe last night, slamming odds-on favourite Darroun to provide champion jockey Davy Russell with the second leg of a double.

Apprentices Sam James and Conor Hoban bagged doubles in Dundalk last night, James scoring on Iron Major and Blue Cross Boy while Hoban triumphed on Lord Kenmare and Tribes And Banner.

THE Adrian McGuinness trained Beau Amadeus broke his duck in style when landing the €65,000 Derrinstown Stud Birdcatcher Premier Nursery at Naas yesterday.

JOSEPH O’Brien, who will partner favourite Await The Dawn in tomorrow’s Juddmonte International in York, partnered 20/1 shot Long Wait to a narrow victory over stable-companion and joint-favourite Second Glance in the Hillstreet Quarries Jog For Jockeys Flat v National Hunt Riders Challenge at rainswept Roscommon last night.

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SIXTH in the Irish 2,000 Guineas and narrowly beaten at listed level, the John Oxx trained Zabarajad scraped home to land odds of 30/100 in the opening Bennettsbridge Maiden at Gowran Park last night.

THE battle for the 2010 Apprentice Championship ended in a three-way tie between Gary Carroll, Ben Curtis and Joseph O’Brien following a dramatic night of action at Dundalk last night, when O’Brien completed a superb double to join his two rivals on the 39-winner mark.

NO joy for Ruby Walsh on his comeback ride, Hail Caesar, in the Owen Dervin & Sons Hurdle at Roscommon last night.

Fran Berry produced a riding masterclass to land the Low Low Handicap, the big race on the penultimate day of the Galway festival, on Toufan Express.

THE Dessie Hughes-trained Quiet Word proved the equine star of last night’s action in sun-drenched Ballinrobe, the Bryan Cooper-ridden gelding scoring a smooth success over Lend A Hand Son in the Irish Stallion Farms Novice Hurdle.

IRISH trainer Adrian McGuinness is hoping the decision to drop Toufan Express in distance continues to pay dividends in the Coral Sprint Trophy at York this afternoon.

Irish jockey Jamie Kyne, a rising young star in the racing world, was one of two apprentices who died in an arson attack at a block of flats today. his family said tonight.

RARE RANSOM earned a tilt at the Boylesports Irish 1,000 Guineas on Sunday week when making all to land the Gowran Park Rooftop Restaurant Race at Gowran Park.

EOIN Griffin realises the stiff task facing Kazal in the Bar One Racing Hatton’s Grace Hurdle at Fairyhouse on Sunday.

LONE British raider Muhannak, ridden by Pat Smullen, landed the listed Diamond Stakes at Dundalk last night.

Afistfullofdollars confirmed Noel Meade's team are well and truly back in business by grabbing the feature race at Fairyhouse.

Supporters of Jack The Giant breathed a sigh of relief when the ante-post favourite just made the cut for the Ladbroke at Ascot tomorrow.

Adrian McGuinness hopes to book promising conditional Kevin Tobin for Victram in Saturday’s Ladbroke Handicap Hurdle.

EOIN GRIFFIN hopes ante-post favourite Kendor Dine can add his name to an illustrious roll of honour by winning tomorrow’s Pierse Hurdle – but believes his charge offers punters poor value.

RUBY WALSH edged closer to the century mark of winners here at home when taking his tally for the season to 94 with a treble at Thurles yesterday aboard Financial Reward, Nay and Wickford.

MICK FITZGERALD feels Tipperary All Star will have to be at his very best to carry top weight to victory in the Ladbroke Handicap Hurdle at Ascot today.

Michael Halford’s Tipperary All Star will have to shoulder top weight of 11st 12lb in tomorrow’s Ladbroke Handicap Hurdle at Ascot, where he will face 19 rivals.

ADRIAN McGuinness is bidding for more rich pickings with Victram in the Ladbroke (Handicap Hurdle) at Ascot on Saturday.

Adrian McGuinness is bidding for more rich pickings with Victram in the Ladbroke (Handicap Hurdle) at Ascot on Saturday.

MIGHTY MAN heads a list of 13 horses engaged at the five-day stage for the BGC Long Walk Hurdle at Ascot.

DECLAN McDONOGH struck yet another major blow in his bid to be champion jockey for the first time when landing a spectacular treble at Listowel yesterday.

JOCKEYS Johnny Murtagh and Fran Berry took time off from their duties at Royal Ascot to record doubles on last night's card at Leopardstown.

ADRIAN MCGUINNESS is hoping Timmy Murphy can work the oracle on Victram in a fiercely-competitive renewal of the Pierse Hurdle at Leopardstown tomorrow.

Adrian McGuinness is hoping Timmy Murphy can work the oracle on Victram in a fiercely-competitive renewal of the Pierse Hurdle at Leopardstown on Sunday.

TIMMY MURPHY has landed the plum ride on ante-post favourite Victram in the Pierse Hurdle at Leopardstown on Sunday.

Cheltenham and the very best jumping can offer may have only just left us for another year, but attention over the weekend immediately turned to the Flat game.