DARIAK, absent since finishing fourth behind Indian Pace in the Galway Hurdle, stormed away with the Brandon Hotel Handicap Hurdle at Tralee yesterday.

HANDICAP king Tony Martin won the Heart Of Down Ulster Cesarewitch for the fourth time in nine years when Green Mile justified favouritism in the Downpatrick marathon yesterday.

OCCASIONALLY, we have a programme, such as the one at Sligo this evening, which has little or nothing to recommend it.