YOU can say you’re into the national hunt season proper when you get to October, although it looks like Down Royal at the beginning of November will be when Bostons Angel, Oscars Well and Saludos will make their seasonal reappearances.

CATCH THE EYE, who won her maiden at the Galway festival, made the step up in class with the minimum of fuss in the Seamus Weldon www.mowers.ie Race at the concluding stage of Killarney last night.

How strange is it to look at the programme for today and to see the King George and the Christmas Hurdle being run at Kempton?

Dessie Hughes, fighting flu’ all week, completed a fine big-race chase double at Leopardstown yesterday with Magnanimity and Rare Bob.

Former smart Flat performer The Bull Hayes opened his account over timber in the Tote Pick Six At 20,000 Guarantee Maiden Hurdle at Leopardstown.

YOU love to see a pony or horse that has been a good servant for you doing well when it moves on to someone else.

This evening's meeting at Galway has been abandoned with two races of the card remaining.

Sea The Stars will face 12 rivals in Sunday’s Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby should John Oxx finalise his colt’s participation.

John Oxx’s brilliant colt Sea The Stars features among 17 entries for the Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby at the Curragh on Sunday following the confirmation stage.

Sea The Stars, a half-brother to 2001 Derby hero Galileo, staked an early claim for Epsom honours with victory in the Korean Racing Authority EBF (C&G) Maiden at Leopardstown.