Sky Lantern, confidently handled by Richard Hughes, oozed class as she proved a facile winner of the Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes at the Curragh yesterday.

Snow Fairy gets the vote ahead of Nathaniel in the Red Mills Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown this evening.

My Special J’s will head to Paris in the autumn following her Group Two success at the Curragh.

Pedro The Great, ridden by Seamus Heffernan, gave Aidan O’Brien a record twelfth Keeneland Phoenix Stakes success at the Curragh yesterday.

Dermot Weld's ever-popular Famous Name landed the first Group Two race of his illustrious career in the Keeneland Royal Whip Stakes at the Curragh this afternoon.

Trying to find winners this summer has been a nightmare with the unseasonal and, very often, unpredictable weather a major factor.

The John Oxx-trained Harasiya stamped her class on the Group 3 Silver Flash Stakes at Leopardstown last night and was subsequently slashed to 12/1 second favourite (from 25) by Stan James for the 2013 Qipco 1,000 Guineas.

The John Oxx-trained Alanza earned a crack at the Group 1 Fal mouth Stakes at Newmarket’s July Meeting when justifying odds-on favouritism in the Group 3 Ballycorus Stakes at Leopardstown last night, the second leg of a double for the in-form Curragh trainer and Johnny Murtagh.