Marcus Tregoning’s only previous appearance at Yarmouth prior to yesterday was back in October 1998 when a certain Dubai Millennium broke his maiden tag in finishing five lengths clear of the trainer’s Tabareeh.

Asawer won a thrilling renewal of the Free Archive Video On attheraces.com John Musker Fillies’ Stakes when she held on by half a length from the fast-finishing Coqueteria at Yarmouth.

Michael Stoute is hoping Hard Top can finally break his Ladbrokes St Leger jinx and lift the Doncaster race on Saturday.

Ryan Moore is counting down the days before he partners Hard Top in the Ladbrokes St Leger Stakes at Doncaster next weekend.

ABILITY to handle soft ground will be a real plus at Tralee this afternoon and Dermot Weld has two live possibilities in Bawaader and Lake Vostock.

LIGHTLY-RACED Lake Vostock can keep the Dermot Weld bandwagon rolling by landing the John Perry Maiden at Sligo this evening.

IT is the calm before the storm in Ireland this weekend with small fields at Leopardstown tonight and a programme which has little or nothing to recommend it at Wexford tomorrow.

Hard Top, Sir Michael Stoute’s only entry in the Ladbrokes St Leger, makes his 2005 debut in the Come Racing Here On Saturday Evening Maiden Stakes at Lingfield tomorrow.

SHALAPOUR was cut by a number of firms for the Vodafone Derby after a smooth success in the Pricewaterhousecoopers Classic Trial at Gowran Park yesterday.

DERMOT WELD is a realist, a high-class trainer who has more than stood the test of time.

TRAINER, Pat Hughes, lashed out at an on-course bookmaker after his newcomer, Farmer Brown, had landed a gamble in the Kevin McManus Champion Bumper at Limerick yesterday.

CURRAGH trainer Ger O’Leary’s first British runner over jumps ended in success when Big King took the Elizabeth Beckett Memorial Novices’ Handicap Chase at Newbury yesterday under Tony McCoy.

Footstepsinthesand proved the star of the show as the Ballydoyle team enjoyed a good day at Leopardstown this afternoon.

Hazarista is reported to be in “very good form” as she bids to take tomorrow’s Aston Upthorpe Yorkshire Oaks back to Ireland.

Andy Turnell is hoping for an improved effort from Jelani in the Emirates Airline Yorkshire Cup tomorrow on what will be his third run following a long lay-off.

Dermot Weld has predicted a bright future for Cairdeas after the colt’s impressive victory at Naas on Wednesday.

DERMOT WELD (above) has not enjoyed the best of starts to the flat campaign and currently has only four successes to his name and a strike rate of just 5%.

With the Grand National done and dusted for another 12 months, those punters on the search for some ante-post value could do worse than take a close look at the odds available for Necklace in the UltimateBet.com 1000 Guineas.

BRAVE little Solerina, fresh from her fourth to Iris’s Gift in the Stayers’ Hurdle at Cheltenham, can enjoy a first ever success on the level in the Peter Byrne Kildare Race at the Curragh tomorrow.

Michael Kinane has his first ride for John Oxx in France tomorrow since his appointment as stable jockey to the Kildare trainer.

Dalakhani pleased trainer Alain de Royer-Dupre in a gallop at Chantilly this morning ahead of his tilt at Sunday’s Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.

AIDAN O’BRIEN’S Necklace is a confident choice to land the Group One Moyglare Stud Stakes at the Curragh tomorrow.

High Chaparral is back on track for the big autumn prizes after playing his part in a red-letter day for trainer Aidan O’Brien at the Curragh yesterday.

HIGH CHAPARRAL, short of peak fitness or not, has to be fancied to make short work of his rivals in the Royal Whip Stakes at the Curragh tomorrow.

ALWAYS, fresh from a decent effort at Galway a week, ago, can land the Michael Holland Tyres Maiden Hurdle at Roscommon this evening.

ALWAYS, fresh from a decent effort at Galway a week, ago, can land the Michael Holland Tyres Maiden Hurdle at Roscommon this evening.

CHRISTOPHE SOUMILLON, the Belgian-born superstar of French racing, will wake up this morning feeling like a victim of the three-card trick.

TAKE a chance on The Great Gatsby upsetting hot-pot, Dalakhani, in tomorrow’s Budweiser Irish Derby at the Curragh.

Dalakhani stretched his unbeaten record to six with a smooth victory in the Prix du Jockey-Club at Chantilly today.

MICHAEL GRASSICK, fresh from a double on the flat at Fairyhouse on Saturday and on the mark with Major Title at Leopardstown, continued his terrific run when King’s Opera won the featured Murphys’ Irish Stout Handicap Hurdle at Killarney yesterday.

Dalakhani remains on course for a crack at the Prix du Jockey-Club (French Derby) after extending his unbeaten record to four races in the Group Two Prix Greffulhe at Longchamp today.

REVUE, a horse who has often been a friend to the layers in the past, finally put it together at Thurles yesterday when landing the Devil’s Bit Maiden.

Godolphin have bought Melbourne Cup contender Pugin, who finished second in Saturday‘s Irish St Leger, it has been announced on their official website.