Gordon Elliott’s exciting prospect Don Cossack will take his next step in a fascinating Navan Novice Hurdle on Sunday.

Paul Carberry, out of action from mid-July until two weeks ago with a fractured shoulder-blade, shared a double with Noel Meade in Galway yesterday, delivering the goods on Silverhand and Muirhead.

Three-times Grade One winner Follow The Plan has been given top weight of 11st 10lb in the tote.com Galway Plate.

Two men who sent parcel bombs to Celtic manager Neil Lennon and other high-profile fans of the club have been jailed for five years each.

Willie Mullins extended his impressive strike-rate for the Supreme Horse Racing Club when debutante Letherbelucky justified 13/8 favouritism in the Knockhouse Stud Mares Flat Race, the bumper on last night’s card in Wexford.

Two men were convicted today of conspiring to assault Celtic manager Neil Lennon and other high profile supporters of the club in a parcel bomb plot.

Two men accused of sending improvised explosive devices to Celtic manager Neil Lennon and other high profile supporters of the football club are no longer charged with conspiring to murder them due to insufficient evidence.

The daughter of a man accused of plotting to murder Celtic FC manager Neil Lennon in a parcel-bomb plot told a court today that she never asked for peroxide to be bought on her behalf.

A package addressed to Celtic manager Neil Lennon tested positive for a substance which can be used to make explosives, a British court heard today.

A jury in the trial of two men accused of plotting to murder Neil Lennon have today been shown pictures of the contents of a suspicious package addressed to the Celtic FC manager.

Two men appeared in court accused of plotting to murder Celtic manager Neil Lennon and other high-profile supporters of the club.

OWNER Paul Barber is keeping his fingers crossed Denman can take a leaf out of old rival Kauto Star’s book when he returns to action at Leopardstown next month.

Ante-post favourite Aiteen Thirtythree features among 19 confirmations for the Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury on Saturday.

The in-form Muirhead leads a four-pronged Irish challenge on the United House Gold Cup Handicap Chase at Ascot on Saturday.

FOR PADY DE PLASTERER is set to make his eagerly-anticipated return to action in the Star “Best For Racing Coverage” Chase at Punchestown on Thursday.

PAUL CARBERRY produced a typically confident ride as Muirhead captured a dramatic Ladbrokes.com Munster National at Limerick yesterday.

Royal Reveille landed the odds in some style to make it four wins from five starts in the Greenmount Park Novice Hurdle at Limerick.

IT’S terrific to be back in full flow now and I’m very much looking forward to riding Blazing Tempo in the Kerry National at Listowel today.

TWO men are to stand trial accused of conspiring to murder Celtic manager Neil Lennon and high-profile supporters of the club.

THE classy Muirhead registered his first win over hurdles since landing the Grade 1 ‘Royal Bond’ at Fairyhouse in November 2007 when justifying 5/4 favouritism in the featured Ballinrobe Races 90th Anniversary Hurdle at the County Mayo track last night.

CAPTAIN Cee Bee is still likely to line up in the Galway Plate even if he wins tomorrow’s Kevin McManus Bookmaker Grimes Hurdle at Tipperary.

TWO men have appeared in court charged with dispatching explosive substances and hoax bombs after suspect packages were sent to Celtic manager Neil Lennon and high-profile supporters of the club.

WILLIE MULLINS has left both Flat Out and Quel Esprit in Sunday’s Frank Ward Solicitors Arkle Novice Chase at Leopardstown on Sunday – but stable companion Mikael D’Haguenet is a notable absentee.

LEOPARDSTOWN yesterday announced the entries for the 4 Grade 1 races on Sunday, February 6, the featured Hennessy Gold Cup, Dr PJ Moriarty Chase, Deloitte Novice Hurdle and the Spring Juvenile Hurdle.

VOLER LA VEDETTE made an impressive return to action when repeating last year’s win in the listed Grabel Mares Hurdle at Punchestown yesterday.

Voler La Vedette made a pleasing return to action with a cosy victory in the Grabel Mares Hurdle at Punchestown today.

QUEEN MOTHER Champion Chase hero Big Zeb is on course to begin the new winter campaign at Navan next month.

TAKE a chance on Elyaadi surprising likely hot-pot Voler La Vedette in the Listed Grabel Mares’ Hurdle at Punchestown this afternoon.

DONALD McCAIN is confident Peddlers Cross will not suffer the dreaded ‘bounce factor’ in the John Smith’s Mersey Novices’ Hurdle at Aintree today.

GO NATIVE will face 11 rivals as he bids to secure a £1m bonus in tomorrow’s Smurfit Kappa Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham.

NEWBURY this afternoon is all about two horses, Master Minded and Denman.

IT may be the height of folly to nap a horse who finished a remote seventh of seven finishers last time, but that’s precisely what we are going to do with J’y Vole in the Grade 2 Red Mills Chase at Gowran Park this afternoon.

IT isn’t very often a horse heads to the racecourse seeking a four-timer, gets beaten and emerges with reputation not just intact, but enhanced.

Nicanor – the first horse to beat Denman under Rules – could return to the scene of his finest hour for a crack at the Irish Independent Arkle Trophy at Cheltenham in March.

AVAILING of a window in his thirty-day ban, Paul Carberry guided Oscar Looby to victory in the Grade 2 Woodlands Park 100 Club Novice Chase at Naas yesterday.

Celestial Halo looks set for his first trip to Ireland after featuring among 12 entries for Sunday’s Toshiba Irish Champion Hurdle at Leopardstown.

LUSKA LAD remains the nap choice in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Irish Racing Writers’ Novice Hurdle at Naas today, a meeting recheduled from last Saturday.

FINALLY, we look set to see some action, with Naas the focus of attention this afternoon.

Noel Meade is keeping his fingers crossed that Muirhead can show his true colours in the Limestone Lad Hurdle at Naas tomorrow.

Solwhit impressively returned to winning ways to deny Sublimity back-to-back victories in the Leopardstown Golf Centre December Festival Hurdle at Leopardstown.

SOLWHIT gets the vote to redeem his mildly tarnished reputation in the Grade 1 Golf Centre December Festival Hurdle at Leopardstown this afternoon.

Willie Mullins admits he is unsure when his star hurdler Hurricane Fly will return to racecourse action after suffering a sprained suspensory ligament.

Shinrock Paddy confirmed himself an exciting prospect with a runaway win in the Barry & Sandra Kelly Memorial Hurdle at Navan for Paul Nolan and Alain Cawley.

THE senior National Hunt handicapper, Noel O’Brien, had every reason to allow himself a little smile after the Grade 1 Hurdle at Punchestown on Sunday.