Ballarina might surprise a few in the Avon Gorge Handicap at Hamilton today.

Hibernian 4 Falkirk 3 (aet)

FT: Falkirk 1 Celtic 3

Reverence is on course to attempt back-to-back victories in the Flying Five Stakes at the Curragh in two weeks’ time.

Michael Hills dominated proceedings at Haydock as he hit a hat-trick, including winners for his father and brother.

Eric Alston's King Of Eden landed a gamble in dramatic fashion under David Allan in the Complete Football Handicap at Newcastle today.

Munster A 34 Heriot’s 7

A video purportedly showing troops shooting blindfolded, naked Tamils in the final months of Sri Lanka’s civil war has revived calls for a war crimes investigation and cast a shadow over the upcoming presidential election.

Kenyan police are a law unto themselves and often execute criminal suspects and other individuals with impunity, a UN expert said.

Reverence is on target in his bid to become the first horse to regain the Betfred Sprint Cup at Haydock on Saturday week.

Eric Alston believes Reverence has strong claims in Saturday’s betfred.com Temple Stakes granted suitable conditions at Haydock.

Blue Bajan staked an early claim for top jumping honours next winter by showing a terrific turn of foot to win the totepool Swinton Handicap Hurdle at Haydock.

Reverence will aim to get his career back on track when he makes his first visit to Ireland on Saturday.

Eric Alston believes Quiet Elegance deserves the chance to step up to Pattern company at Newmarket on Wednesday.

Eric Alston reports Reverence to be “very fit” as the dual Group One winner bids to revive his career tomorrow.

Godolphin may not have had a representative to match Rio De La Plata or Ramonti at York, but there was no stopping the boys in blue as they enjoyed a fantastic 301/2-1 treble.

Michael Stoute can usually be relied upon to have a smart batch of three-year-olds and Tajaaweed and Patkai looked as though they should pay their way in 2008 after making winning debuts at Nottingham.

Tests are to be performed on Reverence before trainer Eric Alston formulates a plan for his stable star.

Eric Alston is not expecting Reverence to lack for fitness when he makes his long-awaited return to the track at Sandown on Saturday.

Reverence is on course for an imminent return to action as connections gear him towards Sandown’s Laurent-Perrier Champagne Sprint early next month.

Top sprinter Reverence is set to bypass both the Temple Stakes at Sandown and Royal Ascot in favour of an autumn campaign.

Eric Alston will map out a plan of attack for 2007 over the winter for star sprinter Reverence, who just failed to end his season in style at Longchamp.

Eric Alston’s Cammidge Trophy third Reverence will revert back to five furlongs for his next run.

Connections of Reverence are hoping the lightly-raced five-year-old can last out the six furlongs of the williamhill.co.uk Cammidge Trophy at Redcar tomorrow.

Insurgents armed with Kalashnikov rifles and rocket-propelled grenades battled about 3,500 US and Iraqi troops today on the streets of Husaybah in the second day of an offensive to rout al-Qaida from its stronghold along the Syrian border.

BOMBING and shooting attacks west of Baghdad killed six US troops and a suicide car bomber slammed into a truck carrying Iraqi policemen near the airport yesterday, killing at least eight and wounding 25 - the latest wave of violence aimed at derailing Iraq’s advancing political process.

Wisam Younis’ sole ambition in life, he said, is to kill Americans. So he expressed surprise when he discovered that his car bomb had killed eight Iraqis and wounded more than 80 outside a Baghdad restaurant.

Will Smith's bodyguard urged his boss not to attend a charity event he was planning in the movie star's native Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, because he's sick of watching so-called friends take advantage of the action man.

Eric Alston revealed his long-term plans after completing a one-two with Charlie Parkes and Piccled in the Akzo Nobel Holdings Handicap ay Haydock Park today.