IT is the calm before the storm in Ireland this weekend with small fields at Leopardstown tonight and a programme which has little or nothing to recommend it at Wexford tomorrow.

AMID THE CHAOS, a tough customer at the peak of his powers right now, gets the nap to win the Ryan’s Event Cleaners Race at Limerick this evening.

THE exciting Damson has to be the choice to take the Group One Independent Waterford Wedgwood Phoenix Stakes at the Curragh tomorrow.

SLIGO this evening houses a moderate eight-race programme, which holds no appeal whatsoever and represents a minefield for punters.