PROPORTIONAL has a lot to live up to compared with last year’s Total Prix Marcel Boussac winner Zarkava, but still had the ability to humble a decent pack of two-year-old fillies in the Longchamp Group One yesterday.

Katiyra is set to bid for a first Group One success in the Qatar Prix de l’Opera at Longchamp on October 5.

NOEL MEADE’S Skylancer can take the second division of the Charlie Chute Memorial Maiden Hurdle at the final stage of the Listowel Festival this afternoon.

Katiyra, who was third in the Juddmonte Oaks earlier in the season, proved far too good for her rivals in the Irish National Stud Blandford Stakes.

AIDAN O’BRIEN can make history at the Curragh this afternoon by becoming the first trainer since 1935 to win all five Irish classics in the one season.

YOU’D imagine Aidan O’Brien was just about the most relaxed man at the Curragh yesterday, as Moonstone and Ice Queen went toe-to-toe at the end of the Darley Irish Oaks.

DERMOT WELD, who has struck the bar in a couple of classics this season, can finally hit the net with Mad About You in tomorrow's Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh.

WHERE Aidan O’Brien treads, records fall like ninepins.

AIDAN O’Brien will fire at least four arrows at the Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh on Sunday.

THAT Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh on Sunday has the makings of a really good contest.

Aidan O’Brien’s Moonstone and John Oxx’s Katiyra, the second and third behind Look Here at Epsom, are set to lock horns again in the Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh on Sunday.

DESERT Lord will bid for his first Group-race success since winning the Prix de l’Abbaye at Longchamp in 2006 when he lines up for Sunday’s William Fry Sapphire Stakes at the Curragh.

RALPH Beckett got on the Group One roll of honour in the best possible fashion with a Classic success courtesy of 33-1 outsider Look Here in the Juddmonte Oaks at Epsom yesterday.

IT might be worth waiting for Raydiya in tonight’s finale at Navan, the ten-furlong Irish Stallion Farms EBF Race.

Ante-post favourite Lush Lashes heads a list of 18 fillies left in the Juddmonte Oaks at the confirmation stage.

Big days in sport are the lifeblood for many fanatics.

Dermot Weld has confirmed Chinese White on course for the Juddmonte Oaks after the Lady O’Reilly-owned filly worked following racing at Leopardstown on Wednesday evening.

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Indiana Gal will face eight rivals when she seeks Group Three honours in the Derrinstown Stud 1000 Guineas Trial at Leopardstown on Sunday.

MOIQEN gets the vote to beat likely favourite Washington Irving in the Group 2 Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial at Leopardstown tomorrow.

PAT SMULLEN continued his determined quest to regain the Jockeys Championship when partnering Graceful Star to victory in the opening two-year-old fillies maiden at Roscommon yesterday.