Anna O’Flanagan’s brilliant four-goal salvo propelled Ireland’s women to within touching distance of an FIH Series Finals semi-final berth as they blitzed the Czech Republic 8-1 in Banbridge.

Trainer Roger Ingram and jockey Robert Havlin will have left Brighton on Wednesday with rather different memories following the bet365 Best Odds Guaranteed On Every Race Handicap.

H Harrison could bid to scoop another decent prize at Chester tomorrow after flying around the unique Roodee circuit to strike for trainer Ian McInnes.

Local owner Graham Povey realised one of his lifetime ambitions when Flying Key, the first horse to carry his colours, won the Bryn Thomas Crane Hire Nursery at Chester today.