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.

Aidan O’Brien’s Parliament Square swooped inside the furlong pole to land the featured Listed Danehill Dancer Stakes at Tipperary yesterday.

JOANNA MORGAN'S Livaleo can land the nap in the Rathronan Maiden Clonmel this evening, should the meeting pass an 8.30am inspection.

PAUL TOWNEND rode his biggest winner to date over jumps when taking the featured Dawn Milk Handicap Hurdle at a packed Killarney yesterday.

RUBY WALSH and Clear Gold teamed up to land a grief-stricken McEligott’s Landrover Handicap Chase at Killarney last night.

ON FEBRUARY 8, 1998, Imperial Call ran his final race under the guidance of Fergie Sutherland, who had famously trained him to success in the 1996 Cheltenham Gold Cup.

THOUGHTS drifted back to the great Imperial Call and his tremendous Cheltenham Gold Cup victory in 1996 after Lisselan Eagle won the Clarina Maiden at Limerick last evening.

Poker players attracted by the potential riches of the blackjack tables today helped online gaming firm PartyGaming to beat market hopes for fourth-quarter revenues.

Manchester United fans were today braced for more off-the-field gloom after forecasts showed the club would report a sharp fall in profits this week.

CELESTIAL LIGHT, backed from some 6-4 to 9-10, landed the wagers with an extraordinary final flourish in the Graun Hill Mares Maiden Hurdle at Tramore yesterday.

AS Manchester United’s profits soared to record levels yesterday, the company’s biggest shareholders, Irish duo JP McManus and John Magnier, have seen the value of their holding in the club soar by 37.9% in three months to €38.42m.

Ruby Walsh took Aintree by storm with a sparkling 681-1 treble in the first three races on Martell Cognac Grand National day with one trainer hailing the jockey as the “best thing to come out of Ireland since Guinness”.

Ruby Walsh started Grand National day in the best possible fashion when he gave Risky Reef (20-1) a lovely ride to take the opening Cordon Bleu Handicap Hurdle at Aintree.

NATIVE UPMANSHIP had his expected easy victory in the MacLochlainnn Road Markings Kinloch Brae Chase at Thurles yesterday, proving far too good for Arctic Copper and Moscow Express.

CLOYNE handler Andrew Lee enjoyed a welcome turn at the final stage of the Tramore Festival yesterday when Buzz Two produced a gutsy display to win the Unecol Oil Company Handicap.

Captain Sol Campbell is out of Tottenham's home game with Premiership basement boys Bradford City.