Call The Police justified short-priced favouritism in the featured Grade 3 Beamish Stout Phil Sweeney Memorial Chase at Thurles yesterday, but not before giving punters a fright.

THERE’S always something of a lull between Cheltenham and Aintree and the racing this weekend is fairly mundane.

WEE GIANT gets the nap to make a winning debut over jumps in the Tayto Maiden Hurdle at Downpatrick this afternoon.

IT’S nice to be back with you this morning, if only briefly, having been on the sidelines of this great game of ours since last April.

WILLIE MULLINS feels the drying ground will not unduly worry his three runners in the Weatherbys Champion Bumper today.

TONY MULLINS, who has been finding winners hard to come by, got back to the big-time at Ballybrit last night when Rock And Roll Kid, partnered by his son, Danny, strode to victory in the featured Tote Galway Mile EBF Handicap.

FOUR handicaps and three moderate maidens make this evening’s programme at Ballinrobe a real minefield for punters.

RUBY WALSH joined the sidelined Davy Russell at the top of the jockeys’ championship, 121 winners apiece, when guiding Captain Conflict to a smooth success in the Saltan Properties Maiden Hurdle at Tramore last night.

FRAN BERRY continues to blaze the trail in the jockeys’ championship, moving two clear of Michael Kinane when partnering the evergreen Penny Rich to victory in the Slievenamon Claiming Race at Clonmel last night.