Colm Greaves looks at what we’ll learn on the final day of the Cheltenham Festival.

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With the National Hunt campaign approaching its halfway stage, Colm Greaves assesses the current state of play

There was a sad postscript after the race for Bolger.

Low Sun sprang a major surprise in the €100,000 RYBO Handicap Hurdle in Fairyhouse yesterday, giving 7lbs claimer Katie O’Farrell the biggest win of her career and the first leg of a magnificent double.

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Robbie Power is confident the Timico Cheltenham Gold Cup trip is within Sizing John’s compass.

It was a little surprising that Nina Carberry didn’t find herself before the stewards, following the bumper at Wexford on Monday.   

Martin Keighley is determined to win the Glenfarclas Chase again with Any Currency after his disqualification from first place in the cross-country event at the Cheltenham Festival in March.

Successful over a shorter trip at the May meeting, Le Vagabond returned to Killarney to land the featured, €50,000 At The Races Kingdom Gold Cup on the second day of the August Festival last night.

In-form local trainer Eric McNamara and Gordon Elliott shared the training honours in Limerick last night.

When it comes to racing, stewards are a much-maligned species, frequently damned if they do and damned if they don’t.

Leopardstown hosts this evening’s flat racing fare, while the national hunt action takes place in Tramore, where Trade Marked can carry top weight to victory in the Tramore Golf Club Handicap Hurdle.

The winning favourites which topped and tailed the card were not enough to prevent punters finishing a distant second behind the layers on day one of the Punchestown festival.

Let the madness of Grand National Day begin. Unfortunately for me, after my fall from Blood Cotil in the Topham I sustained a wrist injury and won’t be involved in the way I had hoped.

Ruby Walsh will miss the Crabbie’s Grand National meeting after suffering a wrist injury in a fall at Aintree yesterday.

Rogue Angel is unlikely to line up in the Crabbie’s Grand National at Aintree on Saturday week following his emotional triumph in the Irish equivalent on Easter Monday.

Sam Waley-Cohen and Nina Carberry are free to ride in the Crabbie’s Grand National at Aintree after an about-turn by the British Horseracing Authority governing their eligibility due to suspension.

Good days and bad days at Cheltenham. 

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

All the talk of ‘Ricci Tuesday’ had been replaced by an intense focus on what was expected to be ‘JP Wednesday.’

Teenage sensation Jack Kennedy, who has not yet turned seventeen, registered his first wins as a 3lb. claimer when completing a hard-earned double on Steamboat Bill and Finea in Down Royal yesterday.

Champion trainer Willie Mullins won the Grade 2 Navan Novice Hurdle for the fourth time in five years when Bellshill, ridden by Ruby Walsh, proved an impressive twelve lengths winner of yesterday’s feature in Navan.