ON a day when classy stable-companion Banimpire was sold for €2.3m at Goffs, Glor Na Mara belatedly opened his account - at the sixteenth attempt - when romping to a facile win in the bookings@dundalkstadium.com Maiden at Dundalk.

HIBAAYEB gets the vote to land a wide-open Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh tomorrow.

THERE will be slim pickings for European horses when America’s prestigious Eclipse Awards are handed out in Beverly Hills, California, later this month.

EUROPEAN horses dominated the finish of the Breeders’ Cup Turf with a clean sweep of the places spearheaded by Shirocco at Belmont Park in New York on Saturday night.

Four horses will bid to join the ranks of the Breeders’ Cup elite on Saturday and become dual winners at horse racing’s world championship.