Reigning champion Gary Carroll and longtime championship leader Ben Curtis are tied on the 32 winner mark in the race for the apprentice title following their victories at Sligo yesterday.

THOMOND O’MARA’S Tornedo Shay is the nap choice to make a winning debut on the flat in the Join The Sligo Race Supporters’ Club in 2011 Maiden at Sligo this afternoon.

STEINBECK, having mixed it with the best without much success since the start of the campaign, outclassed the opposition in the Vincent O’Brien Ruby Stakes at Killarney last night.