Light Heavy gave Jim Bolger a third Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial success when again displaying commendable tenacity to beat pacemaking Ballydoyle second string Tower Rock by a neck in Leopardstown yesterday.

English challenger Spirit Quartz can provide the answer to the Listed five furlongs Woodlands Stakes at Naas this afternoon.

If there was one horse about which to get excited at Leopardstown last Sunday then it was surely John Oxx’s Sharestan.

Blinkered for the first time, the David Wachman-trained Chrysanthemum landed the first stakes race of the new flat season, the Group 3 Lodge Park Stud Park Express Stakes, when proving too strong for favourite Twirl and Princess Sinead in glorious sunshine at the Curragh yesterday.

New Approach got his stallion career off to the ideal start as his first son, Dawn Approach, made a winning debut in the Tally Ho Stud European Breeders Fund Maiden at the Curragh.