Lexus Chase winner Synchronised has been allotted top weight of 11st 10lb for this year’s John Smith’s Grand National at Aintree.

RUBY WALSH believes Long Run deserves to be favourite for the Betfred Cheltenham Gold Cup.

LONG RUN and Kauto Star will clash for the third time in tomorrow’s Betfair Chase at Haydock.

Luska Lad will not run in Friday’s rearranged Galmoy Hurdle and will also skip Cheltenham, according to his trainer John Hanlon.

BIG BUCK’S and Mikael D’Haguenet are the standout name among 46 entries for the Ladbrokes World Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival on March 17.

Big Buck’s is the standout name among 46 entries for the Ladbrokes World Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival on March 17.

Luska Lad could set up a crack at Big Buck’s with a good run in the Galmoy Hurdle at Gowran on January 20.

This afternoon’s meeting at Navan will go ahead after the course passed a 7.30am inspection.

Last season’s Supreme Novices’ Hurdle runner-up Get Me Out Of Here will carry top-weight in The Ladbroke on Saturday – if the meeting survives the weather.

TRAINER John Hanlon isn’t called the shark for nothing and at Tramore yesterday his heavily-backed Bandama scorched away with the Tote Go Racing Maiden Hurdle for amateur riders.

CHARLIE SWAN’S Strongpoint is clearly no star, but got the job done in good style in the 5Euro Admission On 24th June Beginners Chase at Tipperary last night.

AIDAN O’BRIEN, who doesn’t send too many horses to Clonmel, could provide a winning nap in the shape of Great Wisdom in the featured 2010 SEPAM Tipperary Perpetual Cup Handicap at the track tonight.

WESTERN LEADER stamped himself as one of the most exciting young horses in the country with a breathtaking display to land the Grade 2 Michael Purcell Memorial Novice Hurdle at Thurles yesterday.

Western Leader continued his rise through the ranks with a hugely impressive success in the Grade Two Michael Purcell Memorial Novice Hurdle at Thurles.

Big Zeb’s Champion Chase aspirations were realigned courtesy of a highly impressive performance at Punchestown.

John Hanlon has given his dual bumper winner Western Leader as one who could rise to the top of the tree during the winter months.

LUSKA LAD can make a successful debut over jumps in the Corrib Food Products Maiden Hurdle at Galway this afternoon.

THE Michael O’Brien-trained Oligarch Society made it three wins in four races when taking the Listed Dawn Omega Milk EBF Mares’ Novice Hurdle at Limerick yesterday.

IT’s a long way from Banbridge in Co Down to Clonmel, but it paid off for trainer, Jerry Cosgrave, when his Dick Naylor won the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Maiden Hurdle at Clonmel yesterday.

YOU don’t often see people heading to the beach sporting raincoats and rubber boots, but that will surely be the case for the annual jamboree on Laytown strand this afternoon.

JUBILANT NOTE, formerly trained on the flat by Dermot Weld, has proved a terrific money-spinner for Mick Murphy.

DANNY MULLINS, the rising young star of flat racing, drove the Paul Cashman-trained 20-1 shot Glitter Baby to a decisive victory in the featured Guinness Handicap at Galway last night.

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.

A 15-year-old autistic boy who has taken High Court proceedings against the State aimed at securing an education appropriate to his needs has settled the part of his action against the Heath Service Executive.

EAGLE’S PASS, owned by two New York-based Kerrymen, Niall O’Dowd and Denis Kelleher, ran his rivals ragged to land the valuable Guinness Gold Cup at Tralee yesterday.

LISTOWEL trainer Seamus Lynch was the toast of the bookmakers at Tramore last night, after his Revisionist had beaten hot-pot, El Cerro, in the Tote placepot Races 1 to 6 three-year-old Maiden Hurdle.

A new type of company set up to help the community can be established in the North following the introduction of new legislation, it was announced today.

YOU have given much coverage to Liz O’Donnell’s ‘lambasting’ of the Catholic Church’s over-involvement in the education of our children, including her statement that the Church “has failed the public.”

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