AFTER a short Christmas break, racing returns to Curraheen Park tonight and it looks a particularly difficult one for punters.

MUCKY EAMONN, jointly owned and nominated by Don and Gerard Buckley from Macroom, Co Cork and trained by James Kelleher, was a worthy winner of the Agnes O’Brien Cork Cup at Blarney yesterday when easily beating the Gerry Griffin trained long-odds favourite, Sound Pistol, by eight lengths in the final.