Ballydoyle debutant Ernest Hemingway proved the undoubted star of last night’s action in Dundalk, romping to an impressive ten lengths win in the Irish Stallion Farms Maiden to spark a double for Aidan and Joseph O’Brien.

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.

Nearly half of the 70 miners trapped underground by a fire in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan have been rescued, while the rest remained underground in emergency refuge rooms stocked with oxygen and supplies, a mine official said today.