THE paddypower.com Grand National at Cork yesterday produced a terrific local victory with the Tom Nagle trained The Bishop Looney digging deep to beat Another Palm.

PAUL TOWNEND landed a double at Cork yesterday, producing a particularly fine effort to take the featured Kinsale Handicap Chase aboard Keys Pride.

PENCIL in Sunday, November 30, as a particular date for your diary.

THE Grand National may have been the feature at a packed Cork yesterday, but as far as the future is concerned there was one horse who literally took your breath away and that was Paul Nolan’s Alpha Ridge in the Dial-A-Bet 1800 721 821 EBF Novice Hurdle.