JESSICA Harrington’s Quartino followed his narrow win in a novice race at Bellewstown, with a more clear-cut success in the featured Guinness Handicap Hurdle at Listowel yesterday.

JESSICA HARRINGTON is within about €3,000 of hitting the million mark in prizemoney for the season, following the smooth success of Top Of The Rock in the Powerstown Maiden Hurdle at Clonmel yesterday.

Celebrities will mingle with punters at today’s Hennessy Gold Cup event in south Co Dublin.

A TEENAGER who created medical history with a double lung transplant is hoping to return to school and complete his Leaving Certificate.

Much like that frightful Wizzard chorus, racing fans are surely united in their wish it could be Christmas every day.

SIX-TIME Group One winner Danoli has died of a severe bout of colic at the age of 18. The gelding was put down at the Irish National Stud in Kildare over the weekend.

Six-time Group One winner Danoli has died of a severe bout of colic at the age of 18.

Declan Colley, Cheltenham

CARRIGEEN VICTOR, having only the fourth race of his life and a third over fences, stamped himself the best staying novice chaser in the country when taking the Dr P J Moriarty Chase at Leopardstown yesterday.

PHILIP FENTON, one of the greatest amateur riders Ireland has ever produced, brought the curtain down on a glittering career when landing the Bumper aboard L’Antartique at Listowel yesterday.