The Group Three Lodge Park Stud EBF Park Express Stakes went the way of Joseph Murphy's Ardbrae Lady (7-1).

A PROLONGED winter and a deluge of rain at Newmarket may have denied Nannina a Classic success but the Group-one winning juvenile rewarded connections with a brilliant display in the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot yesterday.

Dermot Weld is acknowledged the world over as a master of his art. Big prizes in Ireland, Britain, Australia, America, the Far East – they all come the same to the training kingpin.

Dermot Weld is hoping Grey Swallow can avoid the “bounce factor” when he lines up in Saturday’s Manhattan Handicap at Belmont Park.

WELL, the chickens finally came home to roost yesterday and Kieren Fallon rides Horatio Nelson in Saturday’s Epsom Derby.

IT may be a long way from a maiden in Cork to a Classic, but Dermot Weld's Nightime bridged the gap in emphatic style in the Boylesports Irish 1000 Guineas at the Curragh yesterday.

Nightime sprung a minor surprise as she claimed the Boylesports Irish 1000 Guineas at the Curragh.

Connections of Short Dance hope she can successfully step up to Classic company following her wide-margin win at York last week.

DERMOT WELD has high hopes for Nightime, a daughter of Galileo and owned by his mother, Gita, which won the Coolmore Spartacus Maiden before a huge crowd at Cork yesterday.