* My Family is a Zoo by K Gerrard, Illustrated by Emma Dodd (Bloomsbury, €9.00).

Mark Enright is likely to be handed the ride on William Hill Ayr Gold Cup top-weight Maarek on Saturday.

A French victory in Newmarket’s Etihad Airways Falmouth Stakes had been expected yesterday but it came through the less obvious source of the Alain de Royer-Dupre-trained Giofra.

A LAW school student and former beauty queen who has posed for a racy calendar while brandishing a weapon, has been accused of kidnapping, biting and threatening a former boyfriend with a handgun.