A top-class line up featuring the likes of Lush Lashes, Darjina and Nahoodh is in prospect for Saturday’s Kingdom of Bahrain Sun Chariot Stakes at Newmarket.

FRANCES Crowley’s Cheyenne Star will bid to end her career on a high note in the closing weeks of the season.

OSLOT became only the third British-trained horse to win the Galway Plate when landing a huge off-course and on-course gamble for Paul Nicholls and Ruby Walsh at Ballybrit yesterday.

KEMPES is the nap choice to land the Panda Waste Services Race at Dundalk tonight.

CHEYENNE Star rounded off a tremendous season when, enterprisingly ridden by Seamus Heffernan, she scored a facile win in the listed Cooley Fillies Stakes at Dundalk last night.

CHEYENNE STAR is a hopeful nap choice in the Listed Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Cooley Fillies Stakes at Dundalk tonight.

INVINCIBLE Woman can lead her rivals a merry dance in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Race at Tipperary this evening, where the meeting is subject to a precautionary inspection at 8am due to the threat of waterlogging.

Aidan O’Brien’s You’resothrilling is one of five Irish-trained possibles among 28 entries for Wednesday’s Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot.

Bedlam Boy made light of the testing conditions at Newcastle today to lift the opening toteplacepot Novices' Handicap in the hands of Tony Dobbin.

CASEY JONES can outclass his rivals in the Gowran Park Racing Club Novice Hurdle at the Kilkenny track this afternoon.

No extra entries have been received for the rescheduled Ballymore Properties Hatton’s Grace Hurdle at Fairyhouse tomorrow.

BRAVE INCA heads a list of six possible runners in the Ballymore Properties Hatton’s Grace Hurdle at Fairyhouse on Sunday.

Brave Inca heads a list of six possible runners in the Ballymore Properties Hatton’s Grace Hurdle at Fairyhouse on Sunday.

“I'M going back to school tonight”, quipped 16-years-old Patrick Mullins, after he had partnered Diego Garcia to a smooth victory in the Denny Havasnack Race at Tralee yesterday.

Cuan Na Grai could be set for an appearance at Cheltenham in November after giving Paul Nolan a third Guinness Galway Hurdle success yesterday.

WHAT an extraordinary game this is. On Wednesday, Tony McCoy got injured and was replaced on the eventual winner of the Galway Plate, Far From Trouble, by Roger Loughran.

Paul Nolan landed his third Guinness Galway Hurdle when Cuan Na Grai made all under super sub Paddy Flood on the fourth day of the festival meeting.

TONY MULLINS' Stadium Project produced an extraordinary performance to win the Kerryman Long Distance Handicap Hurdle at Killarney last night.

FORMER champion, Pat Smullen took the riding honours when recording a fine double at Roscommon last night, highlighted by the all-the-way victory of Royal Intrigue in the Glenman Corporation Limited Building Contractors Lenebane Stakes, the first listed race ever to be run at the western venue.

CONTROVERSY raged at Fairyhouse last evening when the on-course bookmakers - over 20 of them - refused to bet on the first race.

BROGELLA, who failed to come into foal and was returned to the racetrack when scoring at Punchestown recently, landed the featured Murphy's Irish Stout Handicap Hurdle at Killarney yesterday.

THE only conclusion to be drawn, following War Of Attrition's performance in yesterday's Guinness Gold Cup at Punchestown, is that it will take a very special horse to lower his colours if he arrives fit and healthy at next year's Cheltenham Gold Cup.

Willie Mullins’ terrific run of form at the Punchestown Festival continued as he registered his fourth success of the meeting with Josephine Cullen in the Aon Group/Sean Barrett Bloodstock Insurances Hurdle.

THOMAS DREAPER, whose family is steeped in the history of Fairyhouse, savoured his first success at the County Meath track yesterday when partnering Desperado Queen to an all-the-way win in the Ratoath Mares Chase.

Tony Martin hopes there will be “enough juice” in the ground at Fairyhouse for Dun Doire to do himself justice in the Powers Whiskey Irish Grand National.

Plans for Indesatchel are on hold after the four-year-old disappointed on his seasonal bow.

FRANCIS Flood’s Blanchfield is fancied to take the first division of the Clonoulty Mares Bumper at Thurles this afternoon.

THE progressive Mounthenry proved far too good for his rivals in the Grade Two Michael Purcell Memorial Novice Hurdle at Thurles yesterday.

Michael Hourigan believes this year’s totesport Cheltenham Gold Cup could be a different story for Beef Or Salmon after three failed attempts.

Jockey Ruby Walsh is set to be out of action for up to a month after X-rays showed he has aggravated the injury he received at Cheltenham nearly four weeks ago.

Punters gambled more than €230m at race meetings in Ireland last year, it emerged today.

BRAVE INCA is the choice to outbattle Harchibald in the featured bewleyshotels.com December Festival Hurdle at Leopardstown this afternoon.

KICKING KING, the reigning King George VI Chase and Cheltenham Gold Cup holder was yesterday named 2005 Horse of the Year at the annual Irish Horse Racing Awards ceremony.

HORSE RACING Ireland last night announced the nominees for the 2005 HRI awards.

FRANCES CROWLEY is keen to get a run into Nil Desperandum ahead of a tilt at the totesport Becher Chase at Aintree on November 20.

ROOFTOP PROTEST sprung a minor surprise when seeing off odds-on favourite Rocket Ship in the Diffusion Event Management Hurdle at Punchestown yesterday.

KEMPES, owned by a northern syndicate which includes Armagh football manager Joe Kernan, landed the 50,000 Premier Nursery at Gowran Park yesterday, providing the first leg of a double for jockey Niall McCullagh.

EDDIE HALES, based at Dundrum, Co Tipperary and one of the more colourful characters in the game, enjoyed a welcome turn when Public Reaction sprang a 16-1 surprise in the two mile October Race at Thurles yesterday.

CHAMPION jockey-elect, Pat Smullen, was suspended for ten racing days at Listowel yesterday, following an incident in the opening Ladbrokes Handicap.

Dual Guineas winner Attraction will face eight rivals in the Group One Coolmore Fusaichi Pegasus Matron Stakes at Leopardstown on Saturday.

MOTIVATOR is “highly unlikely” to run in Saturday’s Baileys Irish Champion Stakes if the ground remains firm at Leopardstown.

DENIS O’REGAN, hero of Ansar’s Galway Plate victory, continued to avail of Paul Carberry’s enforced absence when sharing a double with trainer Noel Meade at Down Royal yesterday, partnering Naples and Irish Blade to victory.

BETTING opportunities look thin on the ground at Down Royal this afternoon, but one who can oblige is Naples in the Festival Of Racing Hurdle.

EDWARD O'GRADY, absent at his uncle the legendary P P Hogan's funeral, missed seeing Kentucky Charm land the GPT Handicap at the first stage of the Galway Festival last night.