Byerley Babe, trained by Robert Tyner for J P McManus, justified favouritism in the Easter Handicap Hurdle at Cork yesterday.

Declan Queally, younger brother of top flat jockey Tom, recorded the second racecourse double of his career (had a double at Limerick on January 25th) at Cork yesterday.

COLM MURPHY got a little boost, on the lead-in to Big Zeb’s challenge for next week’s Champion Chase at Cheltenham, when Dangan Daylight landed the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Maiden Hurdle at Clonmel yesterday.

JIMMY MANGAN’S daughter, Jane, was 18-years-of age yesterday and certainly celebrated the occasion with a real sense of style when landing a double at Limerick.

THE National Hunt card at Limerick yesterday afternoon attracted national hunt weather but it was all sunshine for jockey Tom Doyle, who secured a 175-1 treble — his first in this country.