Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Kicking King was voted Horse of the Year at the Irish Horse Racing awards in a ceremony at the Westin Hotel, Dublin.

QUEEN Mother Champion Chase winner Moscow Flyer will face just five rivals when he bids to maintain his unbeaten record over fences in the John Smith’s Melling Chase at Aintree tomorrow.

Martin Kelly

Nina Carberry will not be aboard Dabiroun at Aintree on Thursday despite piloting him to a brilliant success at the Cheltenham Festival.

WISDOM, conventional or otherwise, is in plentiful supply at the Cheltenham Festival and conjecture is very much a common currency.

MASTER punter and multi-millionaire JP McManus is believed to have relieved one bookie of €700,000 yesterday as Irish eyes were smiling at Cheltenham.

WAR OF ATTRITION, for many the banker of the meeting for the visitors, was sunk without trace in the Irish Independent Arkle Trophy at Cheltenham yesterday.

IT IS SAID that the best method of asserting an opinion is to put your money where your mouth is.

Dabiroun has won the Fred Winter Juvenile Novices’ Handicap Hurdle at Cheltenham today.

Pat Keane

ANYTHING less than a decisive success for Epsom Derby favourite Yeats in the Derrinstown Stud Trial at Leopardstown tomorrow will be a major surprise.

AIDAN O’BRIEN will travel to the Curragh this afternoon with high hopes of a treble, headed by Brian Boru in the Golan EBF Mooresbridge Stakes.

YEATS was simply poetry in motion, even if he is called after the painter - Jack B, as he dismissed race-fit Dabiroun in the P W McGrath Memorial Ballysax Stakes at Leopardstown yesterday.