SUN Disc credited Curragh trainer Dessie Hughes with his 17th winner of the campaign when the filly won the opening maiden hurdle at Down Royal yesterday.

ON a day when Pat Smullen clinched the Jockeys Championship with a double on Hawa Bali and Elusive Ridge, Joseph O’Brien kept his hopes of snatching the apprentice title alive with a double on Alexander Pope and Mr Pianist at Dundalk yesterday.

JOSEPH O’BRIEN again clashed with the stewards yesterday after riding two winners at the Curragh, Waydownsouth and Battleoftrafalgar.

JOHNNY Murtagh bolstered his defence of the Jockeys Championship title when following Saturday’s treble at Leopardstown with a double on two-year-olds Factum and Warning Flag at Dundalk yesterday.

RAJIK completed a hat-trick when producing a gutsy performance in the listed Ardilaun Hotel Oyster Stakes at Galway yesterday, getting up close home to foil fellow joint-favourite Address Unknown by a head.