SLADE POWER is the nap choice to defy an absence of 194 days in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Maiden at Dundalk tonight.

JOHNNY MURTAGH registered his first successes since being crowned champion jockey for the fifth time earlier this month when doubling-up on Fantasy King and Maggie Neary at Dundalk last night.

ON a day when classy stable-companion Banimpire was sold for €2.3m at Goffs, Glor Na Mara belatedly opened his account - at the sixteenth attempt - when romping to a facile win in the bookings@dundalkstadium.com Maiden at Dundalk.

DAVY RUSSELL gave a masterclass of waiting in front aboard Royal Choice in the Tipperary Home Of Hurling Hurdle at Clonmel last night.