JOHN OXX can continue his terrific campaign by saddling Mourayan to land the Group 3 Ballyroan Stakes at Leopardstown tonight.

EYTARNA should build on her promising debut effort at the Curragh to land tonight’s Irish Stallion Farms Fillies Maiden at Gowran Park.

TED WALSH likened the absence of Sea The Stars from Sunday’s Irish Derby at the Curragh to the Cheltenham Gold Cup without Kauto Star.

AIDAN O’BRIEN, the most amazing phenomenon to hit Irish racing, won his seventh Irish Derby at the Curragh yesterday when Fame And Glory blitzed the opposition to score by five lengths.

THERE is absolutely no disguising the fact that the defection of Sea The Stars greatly diminished yesterday’s Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby at the Curragh.

Fame And Glory ran out a wide-margin winner of the Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby at the Curragh.

A warm Friday and a positive weather forecast provided hope for the organisers of Sunday’s Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby that Sea The Stars will be among the line-up.

Sea The Stars will face 12 rivals in Sunday’s Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby should John Oxx finalise his colt’s participation.

JOHN Oxx has admitted it would be “borderline” whether Sea The Stars would line up in the Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby if the race was run today.

John Oxx’s brilliant colt Sea The Stars features among 17 entries for the Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby at the Curragh on Sunday following the confirmation stage.

Aidan O'Brien, fresh from saddling the second, third, fourth and fifth in the Investec Derby, is responsible for the first four in the betting with sponsors Ladbrokes for the St Leger at Doncaster on September 12.

Mick Kinane is relishing the chance of a third Derby win as 2000 Guineas hero Sea The Stars prepares for his date with destiny in the Investec-sponsored Classic at Epsom tomorrow.

John Oxx reports his 2000 Guineas hero Sea The Stars to be fighting fit as he goes in search of a Classic double in next month’s Investec Derby.

IF ever a flat race has the potential to produce Cheltenham-type excitement, then it has to be the forthcoming Epsom Derby on June 6.

SEAMIE HEFFERNAN believes Fame And Glory could be in the same class as his other previous Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial winners.

FAME And Glory is as short as 5-2 favourite for the Investec Derby after a thoroughly professional display in the Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial Stakes at Leopardstown yesterday.

Fame And Glory enhanced his reputation further still with an authoritative display in the Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial Stakes at Leopardstown.

FAME And Glory bids to confirm Ballysax Stakes form and enhance his Classic credentials in the Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial at Leopardstown tomorrow.

FAME And Glory can give a major boost to his Epsom Derby prospects by landing the Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial at Leopardstown tomorrow.

AIDAN O’Brien provides six of the 12 entries for Sunday’s usually-informative Derrinstown Derby Trial at Leopardstown.

THAT was some over-reaction by the bookmakers to Fame And Glory’s success in the Group 3 Ballysax Stakes at Leopardstown on Sunday.

Fame And Glory was roundly slashed for the Epsom Derby after his classy victory in the PW McGrath Memorial Ballysax Stakes at Leopardstown.

THE well-drawn Jakarata Jazz has a good chance of getting us off to the perfect start for the weekend in the Median Auction Maiden at Naas this afternoon.

Aidan O’Brien is responsible for 36 of the 138 horses remaining in the Derby after the first forfeit stage as the Ballydoyle trainer looks to capture the £1.25m (€1.4m) Classic for a third time at Epsom on June 6.

Mourayan staked his own bid for Classic glory in 2009 among trainer John Oxx’s team with a cosy win at Leopardstown.

John Oxx intends to run Mourayan in the Racing Post Trophy at Doncaster after the juvenile ran a fine race in defeat at the Curragh last time.

Sea The Stars (7-4) came out on top in a closely-fought renewal of the Juddmonte Beresford Stakes.

IT would be silly to desert Dermot Weld at this late stage of proceedings and his once-raced Dark Humour gets the nap to land the Dawn Juice EBF Maiden at Galway this afternoon.

NOEL MEADE’S Jewel Of The West is fancied to give us the ideal start to the Galway Festival by landing the opening GPT Sligo Novice Hurdle at Ballybrit tonight.