Willie Mullins has pinpointed the Christmas Hurdle at Kempton on December 26 as the next likely engagement for Champion Hurdle favourite, Faugheen.

At Gowran Park last Sunday, Pat Smullen rode a double to take his total of winners for the season to 100.

Eddie Lynam has enjoyed unprecedented success with his raids on the top British sprints this year through Sole Power and Slade Power and he plundered another big one yesterday with the two-year-old Agnes Stewart, an impressive winner of the John Smith’s Extra Smooth May Hill Stakes at Doncaster.

Taghrooda could earn a tilt at the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe if she can clinch a third Group One of a glorious summer in today’s Darley Yorkshire Oaks.

Aidan O’Brien’s domination of the Keeneland Phoenix Stakes continued as Dick Whittington caused a minor upset in the Curragh feature.

The nap vote at the Curragh tomorrow goes to Michael Halford’s once-raced Portage in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Maiden.

Eddie Lynam has warned Anthem Alexander could bypass tomorrow’s Keeneland Phoenix Stakes should the ground be too soft.

Wayne Lordan produced Wannabe Better with a well-timed late surge to collar Eastern Rules and Brendan Brackan in the featured Ballycorus Stakes in Leopardstown last night.

"This place has always been very lucky for me," considered Dermot Weld after Mustajeeb’s success in the Jersey Stakes.

Day two of Royal Ascot was seen as generally honours even between punters and bookmakers, despite a number of well-backed winners.

I absolutely adore Royal Ascot and am very much looking forward to the next few days.