The next four days bring Killarney’s racing season to a close, and a good mixed programme gets the meeting under way. Harvest Bow will take beating in the Francie Sheehan’s Bar Killorglin 3-Y-O Hurdle, one of three national hunt races in the latter part of the card.

With reference to recent reports in the Irish Examiner on the excellent work being carried out by the Cork Penny Dinners charity, it’s interesting to note that this charity was founded at a meeting in the Imperial Hotel on Mar 12, 1888.

TOMMY HEFFERNAN scored 2-8 as Nenagh Vocational School crushed Tipperary rivals Scoil Ruain in yesterday’s Munster Vocational Schools Senior B semi-final clash at Dr Morris Park, Thurles.