Gold Bullet proved himself an exciting prospect when making a successful handicap debut in the featured Henry Shefflin & Ashgrove Stables Handicap Hurdle in Gowran Park yesterday.

I nurse a clandestine habit that has driven me to the coldest and darkest corners of society.

Bryan Smart’s Royal Ascot winner Hellvelyn could bid to enhance his reputation further in Sunday’s Independent Waterford Wedgwood Phoenix Stakes at the Curragh.