The final of the Red Mills Open Unraced Stake, worth €6,000 to the winner, was the main attraction on the ten race card at Curraheen Park on Saturday night with victory going to the 5/4 favourite Burgess Dubh (Hondo Black-Borna Luck) before a big crowd in 28.57 on a surface rated .10 fast for 525 and .05 for 330.

TONIGHT’S card at Curraheen is the last one before Christmas and it features the final of the classy Gain Feeds Christmas Stake, which can go to Burgess Star.

Tonight's programme at Curraheen Park accommodates the seven races which had to be abandoned last Saturday night and, with the addition of the semi-finals of the Richard Neenan Memorial A3, it’s a high quality program for punters.

OWEN McKenna had the perfect start to Derby final week when he won Monday’s Catunda Harry Champion Stakes final at Youghal with the Lorraine Moore owned Pablo Supreme.

Former Minister for Agriculture Ivan Yates caused many a head to nod in agreement when, during a recent address to the annual lunch of the Dublin Greyhound Track Bookmakers, he commented that the first priority for Greyhound and Horse Racing folk should be to have the respective industries returned under the umbrella of the Department of Agriculture.