The Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby at the Curragh on Saturday could hardly have got off to a worse start.

Pat Smullen is fancied to make a major statement of intent in his bid to be champion jockey by getting seriously among the winners at Galway tonight.

Go All The Way can do just that by landing the Ross Golf Course Novice Chase at Killarney this evening, should the meeting survive an 8am inspection.

Looking at Great Heavens winning the Irish Oaks at the Curragh last Sunday made you wonder if she might well emerge as a huge threat to Camelot in his bid to emulate Nijinsky and land the Triple Crown at Doncaster in September.

IT was business as usual at Galway last night, as Dermot Weld’s Stunning View landed the valuable Topaz Mile EBF Handicap, one of three winners for the Rosewell House maestro.