The highest-estimated musical manuscript ever offered at auction will come up at Sotheby’s in London on November 29.

Venitien De Mai and Goonyella provided Jim Dreaper and owners Ann and Alan Potts with a one-two in the €50,000 Woodlands 100 Club Leinster National, the feature race of yesterday’s action in Naas.

WHEN it comes to art songs in German, there is a special kind of prejudice that afflicts us.

The horse racing roadshow moves to Clonmel this afternoon, where the Pat Fahy-trained Eyes Of A Tiger is fancied to making a winning debut over jumps in the Laganore Maiden Hurdle.

Handler Padraig Higgins has experienced a hugely-rewarding point-to-point season and the Ballynoe-based handler recorded his eighth success of the campaign by sending out Golden Crisp to record a hugely-popular victory in the winners of two at yesterday’s well-attended second stage of the two-day South Union Foxhounds fixture at Farrangalway outside Kinsale.

The first session of the two-day Kanturk-Duhallow point-to-point fixture at Dromahane took place on Saturday and Sam Curling’s Grand Gold indicated that he’s set for a particularly productive campaign by easily winning the four-mile ladies open in the hands of the Liz Lalor.

He may have a fair way to go to be in the Willie Mullins league, but Gordon Elliott is getting there - and quickly writes Pat Keane.

NEXT week, The Irish Chamber Orchestra will present ‘Joyeaux Noël’, a programme of French festive music, at two of the country’s most historic cathedrals, St Fin Barre’s in Cork, and St Mary’s in Limerick.

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Liz Doyle’s Kauto Grand Mogol, a half-brother to Kauto Star, certainly shapes as a horse for the future, on the basis of an impressive debut over jumps in the www.limerickraces.ie Maiden Hurdle at Limerick yesterday.

Bantry’s chamber music festival has all combinations: string and brass soloists, pianists, and even a quintet,says Declan Townsend.

It may well happen that we will hearing a lot more about Boris De Blae and Rabunda, a pair of newcomers, that finished first and second in that order in the four-year-old maiden at yesterday’s Duhallow Foxhounds point-to-point.

THE 20-year-old Franz Schubert was once asked how it was possible for him to have composed so much music at his age.

An unauthorised biography of Mick Jagger, writes David Kernek, is a must-read for fans, but it doesn’t provide a clue to the central Jagger puzzle

IT was 9.30pm when the last pony jumped at 95th Dungarvan Show — one of their most successful ever, according to organisers.

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GUSTAV Mahler has had many champions since his death in 1911, from conductors Bruno Walter through Leonard Bernstein right up to today and the likes of Claudio Abbado.

David Hayes is counting his blessings that Changingoftheguard did not win this year’s St Leger at Doncaster back in September.

DUAL 2000 Guineas hero Henrythenavigator could clash with his older rivals for the first time in Tuesday’s BGC Sussex Stakes at Glorious Goodwood.

Last year’s champion filly Peeping Fawn is nearing a return to the track after a lengthy absence.

St Leger runner-up and Melbourne Cup third Mahler could reappear in the Saval Beg Stakes at Leopardstown on May 28.

Chinese White was cut to as low as 5-1 favourite with Ladbrokes for the Vodafone Oaks after reappearing with a smooth success at Gowran Park.

A total of 83 entries have been received for the Irish Field St Leger at the Curragh on September 13.

A neo-Nazi gang carved a swastika on a 17-year-old German girl’s skin after she tried to stop them taunting a young refugee.

Aidan O'Brien and Luca Cumani have vowed they will return to Australia for the Melbourne Cup next year after their representatives lost little in defeat behind Efficient on Tuesday.

Efficient bounced back to winning form to deny Purple Moon an historic win in a thrilling finish to the Emirates Melbourne Cup at Flemington.

Damien Oliver has named Master O'Reilly as the biggest threat to Purple Moon's bid for Emirates Melbourne Cup glory.

Heavy rain is threatening to dash the Luca Cumani-trained Purple Moon’s hopes of winning Tuesday’s Emirates Melbourne Cup.

Purple Moon will start from stall 15 as he chases a landmark success in Tuesday’s Emirates Melbourne Cup at Flemington.

Connections of British raider Purple Moon are hoping the worst of the weather stays away ahead of Tuesday’s Emirates Melbourne Cup.

Mahler got his Emirates Melbourne Cup preparations back on track with a satisfactory spin on Thursday.

Connections of Purple Moon believe the Ebor winner is coming to his peak at just the right time ahead of the Emirates Melbourne Cup on Tuesday.

Scorpion has been ruled out of the Emirates Melbourne Cup on Tuesday week.

Aidan O’Brien was dealt another blow with the news Scorpion could miss the Emirates Melbourne Cup on Tuesday week.

Lucarno (7-2) gave Jimmy Fortune a first Classic win with an impressive success in the Ladbrokes St Leger at Doncaster.

AIDAN O’Brien will launch a four-pronged attack on the Ladbrokes St Leger in his attempt to win the world’s oldest Classic for the fourth time in seven years.

Alan Swinbank has ruled out a crack at the Emirates Melbourne Cup with progressive filly Turbo Linn.

Aidan O’Brien’s Yeats has been given top weight for November’s Emirates Melbourne Cup with the dual Ascot Gold Cup winner allotted 59kg, the same as carried when running seventh in Australia’s richest race last year.

Lucarno put another spanner in the works of the St Leger betting as the John Gosden-trained colt repelled Aidan O’Brien’s army to take the Ladbrokes Great Voltigeur Stakes.

THREE-YEAR-OLDS dictate the betting for the totesport Ebor following the publication of the weights yesterday.

Three-year-olds dictate the betting for the totesport Ebor following the publication of the weights today.

Dermot Weld is planning a strong raid on next weekend’s Group One prizes at the Curragh.