Tommy Stack’s Noll Wallop will have his next start in the Irish 2,000 Guineas.

The only horse ever sired by the late George Washington will go into training with Richard Hannon after she was purchased at the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale at Newmarket this evening.

Tom Dascombe is still mulling an offer to take over as trainer at footballer Michael Owen’s Cheshire yard.

High Heeled kicked her male rivals into touch and staked her claim for the Oaks when finishing with a flourish in the Dubai Duty Free Golf World Cup Conditions Stakes at Newbury.

Breeders’ Cup Classic favourite Curlin was further shortened in the market following the draw for Saturday’s £5m main event.

AN ENCOURAGING draw for Aidan O’Brien’s Duke of Marmalade saw the five-time Group One winner shortened in the market for Saturday night’s $5 million (€3.82m) Breeders’ Cup Classic.

LEOPARDSTOWN was hit by torrential rain yesterday, which has prompted a 7am inspection this morning, before the green light can be given for today’s Tattersalls Millions Irish Champion Stakes.

SILVERHAND gets the nap to make a successful debut on the flat in the Rathronan Maiden at Clonmel this evening.

AIDAN O’BRIEN is a hot favourite to continue his remarkable season and secure his 19th Group One victory of the year in the Tattersalls Millions Irish Champion Stakes on Saturday.

MULTIDIMENSIONAL is the value call to give Henry Cecil a first Group One winner of the year in the Juddmonte International at York today.

PERHAPS it’s puristically disappointing but today’s King George can, readily, be boiled down to a two-horse race.

Danehill Destiny bids to extend her unbeaten sequence to three when she faces 16 rivals in a competitive renewal of the Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot on Wednesday.

COSMO KING looks the part in the Castlebellingham Handicap at Dundalk tonight.

IF there is a future National Hunt star in action this weekend then it is likely to be Philip Rothwell’s Call Bewleys in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Novice Chase at Cork tomorrow.

SIEGEMASTER, a desperately unlucky loser at Ballinrobe last time, can set the record straight in the second division of the Gowran Park Golf Membership Open Maiden Hurdle at the Kilkenny track this afternoon.

AIDAN O’BRIEN hailed Kieren Fallon as a “unique talent” after he partnered Dylan Thomas to his dramatic victory.

DRAMA is never far from Kieren Fallon and his supporters had to survive an excruciating 35-minute wait before Dylan Thomas was awarded victory in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp yesterday.

Dylan Thomas gave Aidan O’Brien his first victory in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe with a thrilling success at Longchamp today.

Simply Perfect will bid to secure her second Group One success of the season - and her third in all – in the Kingdom Of Bahrain Sun Chariot Stakes at Newmarket on Saturday.

Relentless rain got Ascot's big three-day meeting off to a miserable start, but those who backed 20-1 winner King Charles in the opening EBF Ratcliffes Syndication Classified Stakes will not be complaining.

Echelon, trained by Michael Stoute and ridden by Ryan Moore, won the Group One Coolmore Fusaichi Pegasus Matron Stakes at Leopardstown.

AN amazing fourth consecutive Group One inside the space of eight weeks went the way of Peeping Fawn as Aidan O’Brien’s iron lady overpowered her rivals in the Darley Yorkshire Oaks at York yesterday.

THE King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot may have been tagged a substandard affair beforehand, but the manner in which Dylan Thomas slammed his rivals has been acclaimed by the senior British Horseracing Board handicapper.

KIEREN FALLON, who took a fall from Eagle Mountain in a Group 1 at Longchamp on Saturday night, missed the ride on the brilliant Peeping Fawn, among others, in the Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh yesterday.

THE versatile Eoghan O’Grady-trained On The Net is the nap choice in the Carbon Group Hurdle at Cork this evening.

THAT tasty little touch landed by Arkadina at Gowran Park on Sunday was the third time this season, I reckon, horses trained by David Wachman have cost the layers an unexpected bundle.

DOWNTOWN is fancied to continue Wayne Lordan’s terrific start to the season by landing the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Fillies Maiden at Clonmel this evening.

AIDAN O’Brien’s Duke Of Marmalade is now as short as 3-1 for Saturday’s Boylesports 2000 Guineas at the Curragh.

PEEPING FAWN is fancied to get off the mark at the fourth attempt in the Irish Stallion Farms' EBF Fillies Maiden at Naas tonight.

CASEY JONES is a confident nap choice to land the Evening Racemeeting In May Novice Hurdle at Punchestown this afternoon.

LIGHTLY-raced Sorolla can score at the third time of asking in the SIS Irish Racing Action Race at Limerick this afternoon.

THE high-class Dylan Thomas makes his seasonal debut in the Ascon Rohcon Alleged Stakes at the Curragh tomorrow and shouldn’t come out of second gear.

AIDAN O’BRIEN, yet to get off the mark for the season, could team up with Seamus Heffernan for a treble at Limerick today.

AIDAN O’BRIEN has been left scrambling to find classic horses, following the decision to retire last year’s star two-year-old, Holy Roman Emperor, to stud.

IF the three-year-olds at Ballydoyle have a lot to prove, then the same cannot be said of the older horses.

RUBY WALSH makes a rare Saturday appearance in this country at Navan today and has to be fancied to guide Nickname to yet another success in the Grade 3 Russell Restaurant An Uaimh Chase.

GER LYONS will launch a two-pronged assault on the Ladbrokes.com Irish Lincolnshire at the Curragh tomorrow.

Aidan O’Brien saddles his first juvenile runner of the season at the Curragh on Sunday, the opening day of the Irish Flat season.

Aidan O’Brien has admitted he was “shell-shocked” at the decision to retire Holy Roman Emperor to stud at Coolmore to replace George Washington following the discovery that last year’s 2000 Guineas hero has fertility problems.

Richard Hills made virtually all the running on Count Trevisio at Nad Al Sheba as the Godolphin team made a winning return to the UAE with their first runner of 2007.

AIDAN O’BRIEN admits George Washington’s attempt to conquer America in the $5million Breeders’ Cup Classic is a gamble – but one well worth taking.

TREASURE MAP is the nap choice in the Kavanaghs' Bar Claremorris Race at Ballinrobe this afternoon.

KIEREN FALLON, who would have been at Newmarket in other circumstances, instead had to settle for Cork on Saturday.

IF a future star has been seen so far at Listowel this week then it is surely Charlie Swan’s One Cool Cookie yesterday.