CARRAIG Na Gcapaill should complete a hurdling hat-trick in the Midland Breeders Mares Hurdle at Kilbeggan this evening.

GALWAY Hurdle hero Farmer Brown makes a quick reappearance in the Brompton Recruitment Ireland Race at Wexford this evening.

Pat Smullen was in terrific form at Ballinrobe this evening with victories in all three Flat races on the card – but Willie Supple was in hot water after riding a finish a circuit too soon in the Supermac’s Ballinrobe Claremorris Handicap.

JAWAD, who has developed into a very useful hurdler, looked tossed into the Dungarvan Bay Handicap at Tramore last night and duly delivered.

JAWAD, a horse who fell over fences last time, gets the nap to take the mile and a half Dungarvan Bay Handicap at Tramore this evening.

LE LEOPARD is proving a tremendous money-spinner for the Dermot Weld stable this summer and completed a fine hat-trick in the Eastwood Bookmakers.Com Race at Downpatrick yesterday.

“HE'S an amazing horse”, exclaimed Gerry Cully, after Markason had taken the Sunnybank Hotel Handicap Chase at Tramore last night before a huge attendance of 6,500.

A HUGE car bomb exploded outside a popular restaurant in Baghdad’s upscale Mansour neighbourhood last nigh.

THREE shootings killed four people across Iraq yesterday, including one attack in the capital that left a young girl wounded and her parents dead.

The bodies of 13 Iraqi men, some beheaded, have been taken to a Baghdad hospital, a doctor said today.

A suicide bomber blew up explosives in his car outside the house of an Iraqi police chief today, killing himself and wounding seven others.

A suicide bomber blew up explosives in his car outside the house of a police chief south of Baghdad today, killing himself and wounding seven others, officials said.

IRAQI construction worker Fayez Kazem gathered his meagre savings and headed for a bus stop in central Amman looking for a ride home. He said that he could not sit in Jordan while Baghdad was under coalition attack.

Afghanistan’s new government was looking for answers today after dozens of people died when a wedding party was attacked by a US B-52 bomber and a Spectre gunship.

Indian clerics claim the Coca-Cola logo contains a blasphemous anti-Islamic message.