Tony McCoy brilliantly recorded his first victory in the www.thetote.com Galway Plate with a gutsy success aboard Finger Onthe Pulse.

DUROOB, trained by Oliver Brady for Rita Shah, outstayed his rivals to land the featured Leo Dolan Memorial Handicap Hurdle at Roscommon last night.

FIRST BEAUTY has to be a reasonably confident choice to land the Oran Novice Hurdle at Roscommon tonight.

THE Town And District Chase at Tipperary last night was robbed of much of its interest due to the defection of Cuan Na Grai with a stone bruise.

THOMAS O’LEARY produced an extraordinary training performance to win back-to back Ellen Construction Thyestes Handicap Chases with Preists Leap at Gowran Park yesterday.

THE biggest meeting of the year at Gowran Park today, featuring the Ellen Construction Thyestes Handicap Chase, is subject to a precautionary inspection at 7.30am.

ROBERT Tyner plans to be double-handed with Callherwhatulike and The Halfway Bar in the Paddy Power Chase at Leopardstown on December 27.

OPERATION Houdini is the 10-1 favourite with the sponsors for the Paddy Power Chase at Leopardstown on December 27.

DAVY Russell’s cunning ground-saving manoeuvre aboard Dix Villez denied Enda Bolger a fifth consecutive success in the Glenfarclas Cross Country Chase on a theatrical first afternoon of Cheltenham’s Open meeting yesterday.

MICK MURPHY continued his rapid climb up the training ladder when saddling Cellar Door to land a gamble in the Mallow Hurdle at Cork yesterday.