Noel Meade admits testing conditions would be a major concern ahead of Curley Bill’s tilt at the lucrative Guinness Handicap at Galway today.

Sacred Dragon should be hard to beat in the Floodlit Friday Nights At Dundalk Maiden on the all-weather tonight.

In Dubai where he saddled Lily’s Angel’s to triumph on the opening day of the 2013 Carnival in Meydan on Thursday, Ger Lyons missed seeing Machete Mark open his account — at the third attempt — in the Crowne Plaza Hotel Race & Stay Maiden in Dundalk last night.