Wonderfully, a full-sister to Mars, defied a significant market drift to make a successful debut in the Irish Stallion Farms 2-Y-0 Fillies Maiden at Fairyhouse last night.

This isn’t a run of the mill story of a GAA club and a final.

Pride Of The Artic, the outsider of three runners, produced a fine display to land the John F McGuire Novice Chase at Listowel yesterday.

Doubles for jockeys Chris Hayes and Rory Cleary, a brace for Curragh trainer Jim Gorman and a hard-earned win for the Willie Mullins-trained hot-pot Blackstairmountain proved the highlights of last night’s flat action in Bellewstown, where ground condition turned soft after heavy showers before and during racing.

Kevin Prendergast, who recently celebrated his 80th birthday, has clearly lost none of the magic and was on the mark at Galway last night when Vastonea landed the featured Topaz Mile.

CHARLIE SWAN’S Discovery Bay gets the nap in the bookings@dundalkstadium.com Maiden on the all-weather tonight.

WINNER of the valuable October handicap at Naas last month, Celebrity Sevi made his listed-race breakthrough when battling tenaciously to thwart Priomhbhean and Super Say the Carlingford Stakes at Dundalk last night.

DROPPING from stakes company, French Emperor recorded a convincing win for Eddie Lynam and Colm O’Donoghue in the six-furlong Panoramic Restaurant 2-Y- Auction Race at Naas yesterday.

DERMOT WELD wasted no time smashing the record for the number of winners trained at the Galway festival when Rainforest Magic took his score for the week to twelve in the opening Guinness Handicap Hurdle at Ballybrit last night.

CURRAGH trainer Paul Deegan took the training honours in Wexford last night, registering a fine double with Beauty Express in the Gorey Race and following-up with Belleau in the claimer.

TRAINERS Charlie Swan and Tony Martin took the training honours at Limerick yesterday, Swan doubling-up for champion owner J P McManus with Prince Of Fire and Rourke’s Cross while Martin combined with Ruby Walsh to register a handicap hurdle double with Redera and Somatic.

TAKE a chance on Elusive Award in a competitive Summer Barbeque Evenings Handicap at Naas this afternoon.

TRAINER David Marnane is enjoying his best ever season and registered his 24th win of the campaign in Ireland when Maal came from last to first to win the Derrinstown Stud Apprentice Claiming Race in Clonmel last evening.

JIM BOLGER took the training honours at Gowran Park last night, registering a double with favourite Scandal Sheet in the featured Kilkenny Handicap and Maoi in the opening Bennettsbridge Maiden.

A DOUBLE for former champion Pat Smullen, on De Senectute and Snap Alam, proved the highlight of last night’s action in Ballinrobe.

FIREY Red gave Dermot Weld and Pat Smullen a timely pre-Galway boost when landing the Weatherbys Ireland GSB Ltd Supporting I.T.B.A. Race at Naas last night.

DERMOT WELD’S Moving Heart, who had threatened more than was delivered in three previous runs, put it all together to produce a smooth performance in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Fillies Maiden at Limerick last night.

MODERATE is about the best word to describe what’s on offer at Limerick this evening, with seven ordinary flat races hardly an enticing prospect.

WILLIE MULLINS continued his build-up to next week’s Cheltenham Festival by recording a double with odds-on favourites Apt Approach and Citizen Vic at Fairyhouse yesterday.

THE utterly frustrating Boulavogue is the nap choice to finally break his duck over fences in the 20% Online Discount Beginners Chase at Fairyhouse this afternoon.

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.

Jim Gorman believes conditions should be ideal for Three Way Stretch in the Go And Go Round Tower Stakes at the Curragh on Sunday.

“I’M a natural lightweight”, quipped Robbie McNamara, very much tongue-in-cheek, after the 19-year-old had powered Dermot Weld’s Majestic Concorde to victory in the GPT Handicap at the first stage of the Galway Festival last night.

Jim Gorman’s Hassanali landed the first blow for the bookmakers at the Galway Festival when springing a 20-1 surprise in the G.P.T. Sligo Novice Hurdle.

TANGO FOXTROT is the nap choice to land the Eddies Hardware Race for Willie Mullins at Bellewstown tonight.

JIM BOLGER and Kevin Manning are fancied to continue what is rapidly developing into a terrific campaign by combining to land the Go Racing In Kildare Race with Toirneach at Naas tonight.

DREAMY Gent made an impressive chasing debut in the Martin Tyrrell Auctioneers Beginners Chase at Ballinrobe last night.

KIEREN FALLON, suffering from a sore neck, missed Cork yesterday and was replaced aboard Beauty Bright in the opening Coolmore Stud Choisir EBF Maiden by Ballydoyle apprentice, Sean Levey.

ODDS-ON punters got a couple of frights before collecting on Aidan O’Brien’s Devil Moon in the Munster Maiden at Tipperary yesterday.

THE handicapper, often a much maligned species, had reason to feel well pleased with himself following the running of the Patsy Byrne Handicap Hurdle at Tralee yesterday.