Former champion Irish apprentice Tadhg O’Shea has firmly cemented himself as part of the racing scene in Dubai and is looking forward to his association with trainer Ernst Oertel paying further dividends at the showpiece World Cup meeting this weekend.

Winners from Fran Berry and Colm O’Donoghue inspired Ireland to a late comeback in the Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup at Ascot.

TOP jockeys from around the world will be going all out for personal and team glory in the Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup at Ascot.

Mark Johnston and Silvestre de Sousa secured their second Royal Ascot winner of the week when Fox Hunt emerged triumphant in the Duke of Edinburgh Stakes.

YOUSSEF Chahine, one of Egypt’s most lauded movie directors whose films over nearly five decades often went on Fellini-esque flights of fancy and tackled social ills and Islamic fundamentalism, died yesterday in Cairo. He was 82 years old.