Two icons of Irish racing, Marguerite (Gita) Weld and Johnny Harrington, have passed away.

Oscar-winning director Ang Lee ('Brokeback Mountain') experiences film-making in 3D for the first time with this handsome adaptation of the acclaimed novel by Yann Martel.

THE Dermot Weld-trained Anaverna earned a valuable bracket when making virtually all to land the Irish Stallion Farms Fillies Maiden at Wexford last night.

DERMOT WELD has high hopes for Nightime, a daughter of Galileo and owned by his mother, Gita, which won the Coolmore Spartacus Maiden before a huge crowd at Cork yesterday.