NIALL O’CALLAGHAN, who trained at Louisville, Kentucky for 28 years, enjoyed a first success in his native country when Takeover Bid landed the Newmarket Handicap at Cork yesterday.

“HE’LL be a better horse next year”, quipped Ruby Walsh after he had guided the teenager, Adamant Approach, to victory in the Gleneagle Summer Cabaret Chase at Killarney last night.

TOMMY STACK’S Myboycharlie, so impressive on his debut at the Curragh, stepped well up in class and looked an even better horse in the Group 3 Dubai Duty Free Anglesey Stakes when returning to headquarters yesterday.