Dessie Hughes completed a first and last race double with Art Of Logistics and Apache Jack at Fairyhouse yesterday.

Fame And Glory has been installed as the 5-4 favourite for Saturday’s Irish Field St Leger after featuring among 13 confirmations for the race.

GREEN TO GOLD, an impressive winner at Bellewstown on Sunday, should follow-up under a mandatory 5lb penalty in the ‘Kila & Paddy Casey’ Apprentice Handicap at Leopardstown tonight.

RUBY WALSH can make sure punters are in good shape for the weekend by riding the first two winners at Wexford tonight.

FAME And Glory justified 30/100 favouritism in the listed Seamus And Rosemary McGrath Memorial Saval Beg Stakes at Leopardstown yesterday.

YOU’D wonder if Aidan O’Brien stared wistfully at the winner’s enclosure after the first race at Leopardstown last Sunday, a maiden for three-year-old fillies?

JOHNNY MURTAGH closed to within six of former champion Pat Smullen in the title race thanks to a double on two-year-olds Petronius Maximum and Gemstone at the Curragh yesterday, the first two legs of a 134/1 treble for Aidan O’Brien.

Oscar-winning Western actor Jack Palance, who starred in Shane, Sudden Fear and City Slickers, has died.