Two evening meetings today, the national hunt fare taking place in Kilbeggan, and the flat action at Dundalk.

Sempre Medici is expected to enhance Willie Mullins’ excellent recent record in the Red Mills Trial Hurdle at Gowran Park on Saturday.

Apprentices Donnacha O’Brien and Donagh O’Connor both recorded doubles in Dundalk last night.

Apprentice Denis Linehan registered his eighth career success, and his first of 2016, when bringing More Than Munny with a storming late challenge to collar odds-on favourite Go Kart in the featured Irishinjuredjockeys.com Race in Dundalk last night.

Richard Hannon is under no illusions about the task facing Ivawood ahead of his rematch with Gleneagles in the Tattersalls Irish 2000 Guineas.

It is a quite enough weekend but not without some intrigue all the same and some good performances might book a passage to Cheltenham. 

An ambitious tilt at the Champion Hurdle could come under consideration for Kitten Rock if he can continue his winning run in the Limestone Lad Hurdle at Naas today.

Hurricane Fly and Jezki face off for the sixth time at Leopardstown today in a fascinating clash for the Ryanair Hurdle.

The New One could face as many as nine rivals in the www.StanJames.com International Hurdle at Cheltenham on Saturday.

I’m in Navan for four rides this afternoon, and start off on Hold The Line for Pat Shanahan in the opening maiden hurdle.

Fourth to Kingston Hill in last year’s Racing Post Trophy, Dolce N Karama belatedly got off the mark when making virtually all to land the Crowne Plaza Rated Race in Dundalk last night.

Dolce N Karama, having a 13th outing, can finally get lucky and enjoy a belated turn in the Crowne Plaza Leading Jockey And Trainer Championship Rated Race at Dundalk tonight.

Ruby Walsh is more worried about Djakadam having had only three runs over fences rather than the fact that he is only a five-year-old going into Saturday’s Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury.

John Oxx will not look back on 2014 with any great relish, but he might provide the bet of the night at Dundalk with Kadayma in the concluding mile and a half maiden.

Mark Walsh has been lined up to ride Jezki in Sunday’s StanJames.com Morgiana Hurdle at Punchestown in the event Barry Geraghty is unavailable.

Champion-jockey Joseph O’Brien tasted success for the first time at the annual meeting on the beach at Laytown yesterday when partnering Sister Slew to victory for Gordon Elliott in the Marquees Nationwide Claiming Race.

Dermot Weld feels being on home soil gives Tarfasha a favourite’s chance in the Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh today.

Peter Maher is eyeing Punchestown Festival compensation for Big Shu after his stable star’s early exit from the Crabbie’s Grand National at Aintree on Saturday.

Regulation will look to get a running start upon his return to domestic action in the www.thetote.com Irish Lincolnshire on the opening day of the Irish Flat season at the Curragh on Sunday.

Paul Nicholls and Ruby Walsh will be reunited when Tidal Bay tackles the Hennessy Gold Cup at Leopardstown on Sunday.

Having only her second outing over fences, the Robert Tyner-trained Byerley Babe outclassed her rivals in the Student Race Festival Mares Beginners Chase on the final day of Limerick’s Christmas meeting.

The Michael Halford-trained Zarib emerged as the best prospect on show in Dundalk last night, the Declan McDonogh-ridden colt proving an emphatic winner of the Irish Stallion Farms Median Auction 2-Y-0 Maiden over a mile.

The 12-year-old Captain Cee Bee was far too good for his younger rivals in the Grade 2 Friends’ Of Tipperary Hurdle at Tipperary yesterday.

Galileo Rock will not run in the Ladbrokes St Leger on Saturday unless the going improves at Doncaster.

Pre-tax profits at the country’s largest nursing home group, where two indebted Nama developers transferred ownership of the firm to their wives, increased by 58% in 2011 to €2.5m.

Jo Hughes is looking forward to saddling her first British Classic runner when London Bridge lines up for the Ladbrokes St Leger at Doncaster on Saturday.

Bunairgead’s emphatic win in the listed Lenabane Stakes proved the highlight of a double for trainer Jim Bolger before a huge crowd in Roscommon last night.

Odds-on favourite Battle Of Marengo gave Aidan O’Brien his seventh Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial win in ten years when beating three rivals readily at Leopardstown yesterday.

Dual Derby-winner Camelot produced a workmanlike display to beat stable-companion and pacemaker Triumphant on his seasonal debut in the Group 3 High Chaparral Mooresbridge Stakes at the Curragh yesterday.

The Denis Hogan-trained Inis Meain, bought by Barry Connell as a hurdler, booked his ticket to Royal Ascot when landing the listed Martin Molony Stakes, feature of yesterday’s action in Limerick.

Deal Done, the best backed horse in the contest, continued the terrific run of Bryan Cooper and Dessie Hughes when landing the Wilderness Chase at Clonmel yesterday.

Magicain should open his account in the tipperaryraces.ie 2-Y-0 Maiden on today’s flat card in Tipperary, which is subject to an 8am inspection.

Back In Focus, formerly in the care of Howard Johnson and having a second outing for Willie Mullins, made an excellent debut over fences in the Kevin McManus Beginners Chase at Listowel yesterday.

Sendmylovetorose and My Special J’s are both set to be supplemented for the Moyglare Stud Stakes at the Curragh on September 9.

The Jim Bolger-trained Annie Power sent punters home happy when powering to victory in the Enniscorthy Mares Flat Race in rain-soaked Wexford last night.

My Special J’s will head to Paris in the autumn following her Group Two success at the Curragh.

Pedro The Great, ridden by Seamus Heffernan, gave Aidan O’Brien a record twelfth Keeneland Phoenix Stakes success at the Curragh yesterday.

Dermot Weld's ever-popular Famous Name landed the first Group Two race of his illustrious career in the Keeneland Royal Whip Stakes at the Curragh this afternoon.

King George River gets the vote to land a fascinating Listed Coolmore Canford Cliffs Stakes at Tipperary tonight.

Pat Flynn and Danny Grant shared a 69/1 double with Final Flashback and Al Mancillia in sunny Wexford last night.