Hazapour sprang a shock in the Group 3 Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial at Leopardstown, overcoming Ballydoyle colts Delano Roosevelt and The Pentagon and booking his ticket to the Investec Derby at Epsom

Aidan O’Brien is triple-handed as he bids to extend his tremendous record in the Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial at Leopardstown tomorrow.

English Guineas and Oaks winner Minding fulfilled expectations with a stylish display against older fillies in the Group 1 Pretty Polly Stakes on the final day of the Derby meeting at the Curragh.

Great Minds showed the benefit of his recent return at the Curragh when running out an easy winner of the Listed Cork Stakes at Mallow yesterday.

Windsor Park, winner of bumpers at Leopardstown and Galway, justified odds-on favouritism in last night’s finale, the Gowran Park Santa Train Maiden to complete a first and last double for Dermot Weld and Pat Smullen.

Andy Slattery’s An Saighdiur ran away with the Listed six furlongs Cork Stakes at Cork yesterday.

The Irish horse racing community was in shock last night after the death of Lucy Stack.

Set to be crowed champion apprentice in two weeks, Cork teenager Connor King landed the October Handicap on Ancient Sands in fortuitous circumstances in Naas yesterday.

Wannabe Better claimed the second Listed race of her career when triumphant in the Clodovil EBF Garnet Stakes at Naas.

Wayne Lordan, who finished second in the Derby on Galileo Rock, enjoyed a terrific afternoon at the Curragh on Saturday, booting home a treble.

Lady Wingshot, who beat Yellow Rosebud at Galway, confirmed the form on 2lbs worse terms in the Group 3 Fairy Bridge Stakes at Tipperary last night.

Dermot Weld and Pat Smullen, fresh from a reasonably successful Galway, turned their attention to Cork yesterday and duly combined to land the featured Group 3 Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Give Thanks Stakes with Sapphire.

Aidan O’Brien’s Parliament Square swooped inside the furlong pole to land the featured Listed Danehill Dancer Stakes at Tipperary yesterday.

THE race for the jockeys’ championship isn’t half hotting up, with a three-way tie at the top following Killarney last night.

The Tommy Stack-trained Scream Blue Murder is set for a quick return to listed company following her facile, all-the-way victory in the opening Irish Stallion Farms 2-Y-0 Maiden at rain-sodden Bellewstown last night.

The Aidan O’Brien-trained Kissed romped to an impressive win in the listed Salsabil Stakes in Navan yesterday and, as a result, hardened to 5/1 for the Invetsec Oaks at Epsom.

Ahaaly, trained for Hamdan Al Maktoum by Kevin Prendergast, built on her promising debut run against Shebella at Limerick when romping to an impressive odds-on victory in the www.dundalkstradium.com Maiden in Dundalk last night.

THE Aidan O’Brien-trained Wading proved the star of last night’s action in Dundalk, the Montjeu filly powering to an impressive four-and-a-half lengths win in the Irish Stallion Farms 2-Y-0 Fillies Maiden.

SEAMIE HEFFERNAN is confident Misty For Me can add another Group One prize to her CV in the Coolmore Fusaichi Pegasus Matron Stakes at Leopardstown.

KATLA, the only horse trained by John Grogan in New Inn, County Tipperary, recorded her second listed success when pipping Empowering in the Dark Angel Sweet Mimosa Stakes in Naas last night.

CELERINA, narrowly denied by Margot Did at Ayr on Saturday, is likely to have her next race in the Rockingham Handicap at the Curragh next month.

DAHINDAR proved his liking for Dundalk’s all-weather surface when landing the featured www.dundalkstadium.com Handicap at the Louth venue last night.

Tommy Stack served notice of his early-season potency with a double at the Curragh this afternoon.

GLENCOVE MARINA came back to something approaching his best form when landing the Listed Thurles Chase at the Tipperary track yesterday.

TOMMY STACK’S Machaputo, a big disappointment when well fancied on his debut at Down Royal – but a major order morning-prices – strolled to victory in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Maiden at Tipperary last night.

RICHARD HUGHES is relishing the prospect of Canford Cliffs again waging war with Makfi at Royal Ascot.

GER LYONS, whose horses are now threatening to hit top gear, was on the mark at Cork last night when Rain Delayed took the featured Listed Cork Stakes over six furlongs.

ADRIAN HESKIN added to his growing reputation when powering False Economy, backed from 7-1 to 5’s, to an easy victory in the opening maiden hurdle at Tipperary last night.

PUNTERS who backed De Valira in the mile and six conditions race at Tipperary last night had every reason to feel aggrieved.

Tommy Stack’s whirlwind start to the new Flat campaign continued with a 571/2-1 double at Leopardstown.

Tommy Stack stole the show at the Curragh yesterday with a 3387-1 four-timer at the first meeting of the Irish Flat turf season.

CONNECTIONS of Long Lashes are optimistic she will handle the expected testing conditions in the Moyglare Stud Stakes at the Curragh on Sunday.

Ger Lyons is delighted the Danehill Dancer Tipperary Stakes has been rearranged for Dundalk on Saturday.

CONNECTIONS of Carazam will keep an eye on the weather before making a final decision on the juvenile’s participation in the Galileo European Breeders Fund Futurity Stakes at Fairyhouse on Saturday.

ANDREW Oliver believes In Some Respect has every chance of making his presence felt as he steps up to Group One company for the Camas Park & Ashtown House Phoenix Stakes at the Curragh on Sunday.

SARISKA simply toyed with the opposition, as she bounded to an unflattering three lengths victory in yesterday’s Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh.

JOHNNY MURTAGH missed his two booked rides at Tipperary last night, having failed to arrive back from Heathrow in time.

DAVY RUSSELL, on his first day back since suffering a hand injury at the Punchestown Festival, landed the three mile handicap hurdle at Cork last night on Tony Martin’s Royal County Star, the first of three winners on the night.

TONY MARTIN breathed a huge sigh of relief after his Aggie’s Lad won the Seamus Weldon Novice Chase at Killarney last night.

PERCE Rock gave Tony McCoy and J P McManus a timely boost following the fatal fall of Wichita Lineman in the Powers Whiskey Irish Grand National on Monday when landing the Tattersalls Ireland Dan Moore Memorial Handicap Chase at Fairyhouse yesterday.

Noel Meade was the man to follow on day three of Fairyhouse's Easter Festival with a significant double courtesy of The Fist Of God and Fisher Bridge.