LOCAL trainers John McConnell and Ger Lyons stole the show with doubles on the opening day of the Bellewstown July meeting last night.

BOOKMAKERS got a screamer of a result in the featured Listed Danehill Dancer Stakes at Tipperary yesterday, with victory going to the outsider of the six-strong field, the 14-1 shot Anadolu.

ON AN afternoon when you wouldn’t put the cat out, the Jimmy Mangan-trained Whinstone Boy landed a massive gamble in the Tendrleen Thyestes Handicap Chase at Gowran Park.

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

RUBY WALSH is right on target to land another jockeys’ championship.

KEMPES, owned by a northern syndicate which includes Armagh football manager Joe Kernan, landed the 50,000 Premier Nursery at Gowran Park yesterday, providing the first leg of a double for jockey Niall McCullagh.

RUBY WALSH continued in sparkling form when recording a fine treble at Galway yesterday, but stood himself down after a crashing fall and is likely to miss the rest of the week’s domestic action.

SEA SKATE holds outstanding claims in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Fillies Handicap at Tramore this evening.

TWO Listed races on the programme and two wins for the the mighty Kieren Fallon was very much the story at Cork yesterday.

THE heavily-backed Oh Be The Hokey continued Charlie Swan’s rich vein of form when battling strongly to resist market rival, Joueur d’Estraval, in the McCarthy Group Insurance Hurdle at Cork yesterday.