Come the end of the month and the last day of Punchestown, Davy Russell will surely be crowned champion jockey for the first time in his career.

THE YOUNG BISHOP, trained locally by Bill Harney, proved a popular winner of the Devil’s Bit Beginners Chase at Thurles yesterday.

RUBY WALSH has been good to us over the past few racing days and it would certainly be prudent to keep him on one’s side at Down Royal this afternoon.

EMOTIONAL MOMENT, in the Horse and Jockey Beginners ’Chase, can get punters away to a flier on a marathon eight-race programme at Thurles today.

What Odds completed a hat-trick for local trainer Tucker Geraghty and the Dee Racing Syndicate at Fairyhouse this afternoon to justify favouritism in the Duggan Brothers Porterstown Handicap Chase.