Steinbeck heads a six-strong team from the Aidan O’Brien stable in the Abu Dhabi Irish 2000 Guineas at the Curragh on Saturday.

FRANK Ennis believes Sebastian Flyte is not a complete no-hoper in the Abu Dhabi Irish 2000 Guineas at the Curragh on Saturday.

Clive Cox believes Xtension will be suited by the course when he goes for Classic glory in the Abu Dhabi Irish 2000 Guineas at the Curragh on Saturday.

ALAIVAN is a best-priced 8/1 favourite for the JCB Triumph Hurdle at Cheltenham in the wake of his impressive hurdle debut victory at Gowran Park yesterday.

CHINESE White scored her second Listed race success when landing the Hurry Harriet Stakes, named after the great Paddy Mullins 1973 Newmarket Champion Stakes winner, at Gowran Park last night.

DERMOT WELD and Pat Smullen followed-up last Friday’s treble on the track with an ‘all-the-way’ double, achieved by Dreams Forever and Designated Decoy, at Dundalk last night.

TYRONE trainer Lee Smyth, who only took out a licence on March 1, enjoyed his first success when Tipper Road won the September Handicap at Clonmel last night.

PAT SMULLEN continued his determined quest to regain the Jockeys Championship when partnering Graceful Star to victory in the opening two-year-old fillies maiden at Roscommon yesterday.

APT SON must be strongly fancied to continue apprentice Davy Moran’s successful run in the opener at Roscommon today.

With testing ground and a bomb scare, day one of the Tralee Festival got off to a lively start and it was Forthright who claimed the feature Brandon Hotel Handicap Hurdle.

Frank Ennis has never sent out a Classic runner before, but not content with one runner in Saturday’s Boylesports Irish 2000 Guineas, he will have two.

Macarthur, second-favourite for the Vodafone Derby with most bookmakers, makes his seasonal reappearance in the Group Three P.W.McGrath Memorial Ballysax Stakes at Leopardstown tomorrow.

Aidan O’Brien will have the choice of four entries in Sunday’s Group Three PW McGrath Memorial Ballysax Stakes at Leopardstown, which has attracted 14 possible entries.

CURRAGH trainer Frank Ennis, saddled his first Group winner at Leopardstown yesterday when Confuchius beat his four rivals in the Killavullan Stakes.

WHAT price Galway Hurdle day next year to attract an attendance in excess of 50,000?

FERNELEY, “the best horse I’ve ever trained,” according to his trainer, Frank Ennis, showed all the right qualities to win the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Race at Tipperary last night.

CHAMPION National Hunt trainer Noel Meade notched his second century of winners in a calendar year when Guantama Bay justified favouritism in the three-mile Clashwilliam Maiden Hurdle at Gowran Park yesterday.

FOR the third time in as many runs over fences, Dusty Sheehy’s Kahuna failed to deliver for punters at Thurles yesterday.

DAVID CONDON gave well-backed market leader Holy Orders a delightful drive to take the featured Guinness Handicap before a record Friday night attendance of 25,350 at Galway last night.

RUBY WALSH was the toast of punters at Ballinrobe last night when completing a double on favourites Piercing Sun and Askthejudge.

JOHN OXX'S once-raced Czaritza rates a safe wager in the Connacht Gold Maiden at Roscommon this evening.

IT should pay to follow Michael Kinane at Tipperary tonight where he can land a double via Academy Award (EBF Maiden) and Settle (Tipperary Handicap).