AIDAN O’Brien boasts an exemplary record in the opening maiden at Gowran Park tonight, having won it six times in the last ten years, and his Foot Soldier can enhance the stable’s record by taking the race in the hands of Colm O’Donoghue.

Midday was hailed as ’the queen of Goodwood’ following her unprecedented third triumph in the Markel Insurance Nassau Stakes at Goodwood.

HENRY Cecil believes Midday is a better horse this year as she attempts to win the Markel Insurance Nassau Stakes at Glorious Goodwood for the third consecutive season.

Henry Cecil believes Midday is a better horse this year as she attempts to win the Markel Insurance Nassau Stakes at Glorious Goodwood for a third successive season.

THE last race at Galway tonight, the Caulfieldindustrial.com EBF Maiden, houses the safest wager in the shape of Dermot Weld’s Catch The Eye.

THE weight of money for Wonder Of Wonders in tomorrow’s Darley Irish Oaks suggests the filly is poised to reverse Investec Oaks form with Dancing Rain and if that is the case it will bring trainer Aidan O’Brien one step closer to a second Irish Classic clean sweep.

EXPERIENCE must be strongly fancied to complete a hat-trick and defy a 5lbs Group 3 penalty in the listed Danehill Dancer Tipperary Stakes at Tipperary today.

Irish trainer Aidan O'Brien is today toasting his success after winning his sixth consecutive Irish Derby on Sunday.

Misty For Me floored multiple Group One winner Midday in sensational style when making all the running in the Stobart Ireland Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh.

Misty For Me upstaged Midday in remarkable fashion when making all the running to land the Stobart Ireland Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh.

Top-class fillies Midday and Snow Fairy feature among a field of eight declared for the Stobart Ireland Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh on Saturday.

MIDDAY is one of 14 possible runners for the Stobart Ireland Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh on Saturday.

AIDAN O’BRIEN plans to have three big contenders in the Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby as he goes for a sixth successive win in the Classic at the Curragh on Sunday week.

AIDAN O’BRIEN has admitted that the judicial decision to prevent Kieren Fallon from riding Recital in the Epsom Derby was a distraction he could have done without and might well have cost the horse a better finish than his 4½ length sixth to Pour Moi.

BLUE BUNTING came late and fast to deny Together victory in the Newmarket 1000 Guineas last month and it was readily asserted that she would prove even better when stepped up to middle distances.

AIDAN O’BRIEN is anticipating bold shows from Wonder Of Wonders and Misty For Me in the Investec Oaks at Epsom today.

CONNECTIONS of Blue Bunting report the 1000 Guineas winner to be in top form ahead of the Investec Oaks at Epsom on Friday.

THE Curragh yesterday belonged to Aidan O’Brien.

The well-backed Misty For Me (5-1) just got the better of stablemate Together to win the Etihad Airways Irish 1,000 Guineas at the Curragh.

JOHN OXX’S once-raced Dance Secretary can land the nap in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Fillies Maiden at Limerick this evening.

The good thing about being involved in horse racing is that you don’t get a complex about things going wrong for you. Racing is a great leveller so you’re just used to things not going your way.

Johnny Murtagh was left cursing his luck after Fame And Glory failed to get the rub of the green in Sunday’s Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp.

MICHAEL STOUTE completed his set of major European honours as a reborn Workforce shook off a difficult midsummer and the sustained challenge of Japanese runner Nakayama Festa in the Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp.

Aidan O’Brien’s Misty For Me secured her second Group One haul with a battling effort in the Total Prix Marcel Boussac at Longchamp.

I was thrilled with Laughing Lashes’s run when she finished second in the Moyglare Stud Stakes last week. It was a step up to Group 1 class and that was always going to be difficult but she ran her heart out.

Memory proved a bitterly disappointing favourite as Misty For Me won the Moyglare Stud Stakes at the Curragh.

WE have learned one thing for sure of late – riding arrangements for Ballydoyle-trained horses have to be treated with more than a hint of caution.

AIDAN O’BRIEN’S Why gets the nap in the caulfieldindustial.com EBF Fillies Maiden at Galway tonight.

HIBAAYEB gets the vote to land a wide-open Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh tomorrow.