PAUL CARBERRY celebrated the New Year in style when recording a fine double on Dont Back Down and Osirixamix at Fairyhouse yesterday.

DERMOT WELD, fresh from beating Thousand Stars with Unaccompanied at Leopardstown on Thursday, can saddle El Toreros to land the nap in the Festival Hospitality three year-old Maiden Hurdle at Punchestown this afternoon.

THE trip is on the short side for her, the ground may be a shade quick and she has let us down on two occasions, but Killultagh Queen is still the nap choice to land the Mares’ Beginners Chase at Clonmel this evening.

SUCH was the turmoil of mayhem, madness and general swirling of Banners and Bodhrans in the old place that afternoon that you’re forgiven if you can’t recall what had happened a couple of hours earlier.

THE leading contenders have stood their ground for the sportinbet.com Queen Mother Champion Chase at the Cheltenham Festival next Wednesday.