A maximum field of 20 will go to post for Wednesday’s totesport Ebor at York, including Aidan O’Brien’s ante-post favourite Changingoftheguard.

Declan Carroll is praying there will be some cut in the ground when Hits Only Vic returns to York for the totesport Ebor next month.

Backstage earned a possible tilt at the Galway Plate with his victory in the £20,000 (€23,000) Newwave Recruitment Perth Gold Cup Handicap Chase for trainer Gordon Elliott.

Irish eyes were smiling at a packed Perth as Carsonstown Boy justified strong support in the opening Provost's Plate Challenge Trophy Novices' Hurdle.

Pat Murphy will bid to realise the dream of the late George Palmer with Maktu after the seven-year-old outstayed his rivals in the Lingley Caterers Handicap Hurdle at Hereford.

Irish trainer Mick Murphy is looking forward to seeing Menwaal take his chance in the totesport.com November Handicap at Doncaster on Saturday.

Hits Only Vic is set to bypass Sunday's Hacketts Bookmakers Irish Cesarewitch as conditions continue to improve at the Curragh.

Howard Johnson is targeting Royal Ascot success with South Central following an impressive debut win at Carlisle.

Speagle can secure a first victory since December 2006 in the Hop To It At Pontin’s Handicap at Wolverhampton.

Bel Cantor is poised to go in search of more glory at Ayr on Saturday after his efforts at Catterick saw him gain a fifth win in little more than a year.

Jamie Spencer will have his crucial appeal against a two-day ban heard by the Horseracing Regulatory Authority disciplinary panel tomorrow.

Tax Free put some recent disappointments behind him when landing the Michael Foster Memorial Conditions Stakes at Thirsk.

DARRYLL HOLLAND has been partially successful in his appeal to overturn the decision of the Wolverhampton stewards over the riding of She’s Our Lass on March 24.

Darryll Holland was handed a 14-day suspension by the Wolverhampton stewards last night after being found in breach of Rule 157 on She’s Our Lass.

ADRIAN McGuinness is bidding for more rich pickings with Victram in the Ladbroke (Handicap Hurdle) at Ascot on Saturday.

Adrian McGuinness is bidding for more rich pickings with Victram in the Ladbroke (Handicap Hurdle) at Ascot on Saturday.

Perfectperformance shrugged off a 377-day absence to continue Godolphin’s amazing winning run in the Stablecare Conditions Stakes at Newmarket.

Rae Guest has ambitious plans for Bahia Breeze after the filly put up a game display to land the Weatherbys Bank Pipalong Stakes at Pontefract.

Charlie Delta took his winning haul to three with an emphatic success under top apprentice Danny Tudhope in the opening race at Nottingham.

Kylkenny has returned home after recording his 21st career success in the £10,000 Littlewoods Betdirect Handicap at Southwell yesterday.

Declan Carroll will tomorrow appeal against a fine handed out over the running and riding of Pearl Fisher in February.

Trainer Declan Carroll has been fined £3,500 (€5,098) by the Jockey Club over the running and riding of Pearl Fisher at Wolverhampton.

Trainer Declan Carroll and apprentice Neil Brown will tomorrow face the Jockey Club over the running and riding of Pearl Fisher at Wolverhampton last month.

Trainer Declan Carroll and apprentice Neil Brown will tomorrow face the Jockey Club over the running and riding of Pearl Fisher at Wolverhampton last month.

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Trainer Declan Carroll and apprentice Neil Brown have been called to the Jockey Club over the running and riding of Pearl Fisher at Wolverhampton last month.

ST PETERSBURG found just one too good for him on his seasonal bow at Doncaster, but he showed the way home under Philip Robinson in the Pontefract Park Handicap yesterday and is set to step up in class.

Hasty Prince could clash with Rigmarole again in Saturday’s Ladbroke Hurdle at Ascot.

The former head of the Special Branch told the Special Criminal Court today that he believed a Dublin man was a member of an illegal organisation.

TIKRAM, 25-1 for the Ladbroke Hurdle with the sponsors on Monday, is now as low as 12-1 in two places after the flow of support for Gary Moore’s hurdler continued yesterday.

Rooster Booster tops the weights unveiled today for the Listed Rehabilitation of Racehorses Hurdle at Cheltenham on Sunday week.

The Special Criminal Court today discharged itself from hearing the case of a Dublin man who was arrested after a garda operation against the Real IRA.

The Special Criminal Court today refused a defence application to discharge itself from hearing the case of a Dublin man accused of membership of an illegal organisation.

A Dublin man who was arrested after a garda swoop on a Real IRA meeting at a Co Meath hotel last year pleaded not guilty at the Special Criminal Court today to membership of an illegal organisation.

The Special Criminal Court has set May 2 for the trial of one of four men arrested in a garda swoop on dissident republicans in a Co Meath hotel last summer.

A senior dissident republican was today jailed for five years by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin after he was convicted of membership of an illegal organisation.

Three men arrested after a Garda swoop on an alleged meeting of the Real IRA in a Co Meath hotel have been refused bail by the Special Criminal Court.

Four men arrested after Special Branch detectives swooped on dissident republicans at a Co Meath hotel were further remanded in custody for a fortnight at a special sitting of the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

Four suspected members of the Real IRA arrested in a weekend raid on a hotel in Co Meath today appeared before a court in Dublin.