ESSEX can provide the solution to the featured Kevin McManus Bookmaker Grimes Hurdle at Tipperary tomorrow.

“HE’LL be a better horse next year”, quipped Ruby Walsh after he had guided the teenager, Adamant Approach, to victory in the Gleneagle Summer Cabaret Chase at Killarney last night.

DEDO is the nap choice to overcome a bad draw in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Median Auction Maiden at the first stage of the Killarney Festival tonight.

An ecstatic John Otway today said getting his first UK top 10 hit was the most fantastic birthday present he had ever had.