Champion Hurdle hero Sublimity will not bid for a big-race double at Punchestown on Friday.

RESTORATION, who had been hugely disappointing until getting off the mark in a maiden at Kilbeggan last Friday night, continued his upward curve when taking the Kerryman four-year-old Hurdle at Tralee yesterday.

Kevkat showed a really pleasing attitude to win the the Guinness Handicap over a mile and a half at the Galway Festival.

Kevkat, trained by Eoin Griffin and ridden by Declan McDonogh, emerged victorious in the €45,570 Guinness Handicap over a mile and a half at the Galway Festival today.

IT is always mildly exciting glancing down through the Galway Plate and Hurdle entries for the first time.

FRAN BERRY made a flying visit, literally, to ride in the first two races at Tipperary yesterday and then sprinted to a waiting helicopter to get to Faryhouse to partner Osterhase.

THE admirably consistent Cobham can enjoy a third success in the Jim Ryan Racecourse Services Bumper at Tipperary tomorrow.

POM FLYER has a leading chance in the valuable Murphy’s Irish Stout Handicap Hurdle at Killarney tomorrow.

TONY MCCOY emerged as the leading rider at the three-day Festival meeting at Fairyhouse, having registered his fourth win of the week on board the Tom Taaffe-trained Glenfinn Captain in the Dunboyne Castle Hotel & Spa Novice Hurdle yesterday.

CALLOW LAKE is a hopeful choice to provide the answer to the valuable Specsavers Ulster Derby at Down Royal this afternoon.

CALLOW LAKE is a hopeful choice to land as wide open a Guinness Galway Hurdle as there has ever been at Ballybrit this afternoon.

THE eve of another Galway then and every expectation it is going to be bigger, better and even more dramatic than any that have gone before!

PAT HUGHES, whose Cache Creek bolted in at Leopardstown, landed the featured Murphy’s Handicap Hurdle at Killarney last night with Blue Away.

ON a night when David Wachman landed his first ever treble, John Oxx ran two in the Group Three Blue Wind Stakes at Cork, the heavily-backed Zarafsha, partnered by Michael Kinane, and Hazarista, ridden by Fran Berry.

LIVADIYA, who disappointed in her first two runs of the campaign, gets the nap to strike form in the Group Three Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Blue Wind Stakes at Cork tonight.

THE rapidly improving Callow Lake struck a blow for the four-year-olds when leading his rivals a merry dance in the Nire Hurdle at Clonmel yesterday.

KICKHAM warmed up for a possible tilt at the Galway Hurdle when justifying odds of 2-7 in the Niall Brosnan and Co Solicitors’ Novice Hurdle at Killarney yesterday.

SAY AGAIN, winner of the Guinness Galway Hurdle last year, proved himself on course for a return to Ballybrit later this month when landing the Connacht Gold Maiden at Roscommon last night.