Amateur Ciaran Murphy will remember St. Patrick’s Day 2011 for a long time, having completed a fine double on Good Egg and Shadow Eile at Down Royal.

IT was ‘Davy Russell Day’, again, at Leopardstown yesterday when the Cork rider completed a superb treble on Westmeath, Stonemaster and Pittoni to bring his tally to seven winners in the last three days, following doubles at Navan on both Friday and Saturday.

MOUSE Morris’ horses appear to be well forward and his China Rock gets the vote to land the Grade 2 Gowran Park Champion Chase at the Kilkenny track this afternoon.

IRISH racing, which has been dragged through the mud since the Saturday of Listowel, reached a new low at Clonmel yesterday.

THE Terence O’Brien-trained Ballyadam Brook continued his massive progress when completing a spectacular four-timer in the South West Bins Novice Hurdle at Listowel yesterday.

BETTER TIMES can help us top up the Cheltenham tank by landing the nap in the Great Oak Maiden Hurdle at Gowran Park this afternoon.

CATCH ME can land back-to-back successes in the Grade 1 Bar One Racing Hatton’s Grace Hurdle at Fairyhouse tomorrow.

IT’s a long way from Banbridge in Co Down to Clonmel, but it paid off for trainer, Jerry Cosgrave, when his Dick Naylor won the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Maiden Hurdle at Clonmel yesterday.