A robot has been used to precision line seven playing pitches ahead of the long-awaited Renault GAA World Games 2019 at the Sports Campus of Waterford Institute of Technology.

Paul Nicholls branded the decision of officials at Taunton to omit all bar the two flights in the home straight as "ludicrous" after his Tara Point jumped just four hurdles on her way to winning the feature event of the day at the Somerset circuit.

Trainer Richard Lee praised jockey Micheal Nolan’s forward thinking after he guided top-weight Scales to victory in the Higos Insurance Services Bridgwater Handicap Hurdle at Taunton yesterday.

FOUR of the country’s keenest exponents of a fast-growing sport have jetted off to Dallas in the USA to take part in the World Sport Stacking Championships.

THERE were no less than 12 races and 168 runners at Saturday’s rescheduled Kildare Hunt point-to-point meeting at Punchestown racecourse and Jamie Codd had an afternoon to savour with a whopping five winners.