Entry to the venue on Lavitt’s Quay costs €10 and heading the list of names on the panel is former Gold Cup-winning jockey Bryan Cooper.

Paul Nolan is “99% sure” that Latest Exhibition will run in the Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle next month rather than the Ballymore.

Darren Norris selects eight takeaways from the Dublin Racing Festival with a view towards Cheltenham.

Talking horses with Darren Norris.

The Kerry race caller will do well not to lose his voice after hitting new heights to describe Roaring Bull's come-from-nowhere win in the Paddy Power Chase at Leopardstown.

The most famous story about George Best — at least off the field — is one probably everybody has heard.

About half an hour after the final whistle in Croke Park yesterday, as the Wexford players were still celebrating on the pitch, I ran into a bunch of Wexford supporters I last met in Down Royal racecourse years ago.

Trainer Timmy Hyde completed a bumper double with Feelin’ Groovy and Kelp Forest on a memorable day for his family in Limerick yesterday.

The West’s Awake was a poignant winner of the two-and-a-half-mile novice chase at Punchestown yesterday.

Declan McDonogh recorded his second treble in two weeks when scoring on Great Wide Open and Zorba The Greek for Charles O’Brien and Paul Nolan’s Usain in Gowran Park last night.

The action moves to Fairyhouse this afternoon, and Gars Bar Dine can get off the mark over hurdles by taking the second race, a two-mile-two maiden, for Sue Bramall.

On December 31, 2014 a horse called Sadler’s Risk won over flights at Punchestown.

A total of 58 samples taken from greyhounds in competition around the country last year were positive for doping, although that number represents just over 1% of all samples taken in 2015.

Colm’s Dream gave trainer Karl Thornton the biggest success of his training career when landing the €50,000 TRI Equestrian Handicap Chase, feature of yesterday’s card, om drying ground, at Leopardstown.

“We’ll dream for another while,” said trainer Gordon Elliott after Don Cossack completed his racecourse preparation for the Cheltenham Gold Cup with a workmanlike performance in yesterday’s Kinloch Brae Chase at Thurles.

Willie Mullins sends a small-but-select team to Clonmel this afternoon, and the Closutton trainer should return with two, if not three, winners from his three runners. Arguably the most interesting of the triumvirate is Yorkhill, who makes his hurdling debut in the finale.

After a couple of days without racing, we’re back at Fairyhouse today where Misdflight is fancied to take the final race for Denis Hogan.

Tipperary star Michael Quinlivan admits Clonmel Commercials did “everything in their power” to throw away the chance of claiming county senior football glory on Sunday.

Clonmel Commercials 1-12 Moyle Rovers 3-5: Hot favourites Clonmel Commercials had to draw on all their reserves of self-belief to regain the Tipperary SFC title after a three-year gap when defeating neighbours Moyle Rovers in a thriller at Semple Stadium, Thurles.

Tramore hosts a matinee meeting today, and Marie Celeste should reward punters by taking the second race, a 12-furlong fillies’ maiden, for trainer David Wachman.

The Charles Byrnes-trained Arnaud turned over odds-on favourite The Game Changer, also in the colours of Gigginstown House Stud, in the featured Stena Line Horizon Chase in Wexford last night.

Danny Mullins proved the undoubted star of last night’s jumps action in Wexford, completing a superb 41/1 treble on Last Encounter, Ballinaboola Prince and Moonunderwater.

Ronan O’Gara suspects his close mate Paul O’Connell will stick with what he has rather than twist on a lucrative career swansong in France — but he admits cash-rich clubs like Toulon usually get their man.

Solita, locally trained by Paul Nolan, gave punters plenty to cheer about in sunny Wexford yesterday as she came from last to first under Luke Dempsey to justify favouritism in the Courtown Rated Novice Hurdle.

Unic De Bersy might provide Bryan Cooper with a welcome success in today’s Tipperary Races Supports Club Maiden Hurdle in Tipperary.

Top Spin, trained locally by Colm Murphy, appeals in the Chef Phelim Byrne The Ivy Room Handicap Hurdle in Wexford tonight.

Great Minds showed the benefit of his recent return at the Curragh when running out an easy winner of the Listed Cork Stakes at Mallow yesterday.

Video, and other recent racist incidents involving football fans, have made him "miserable".

The next time you hear anyone moaning about the lack of prize money in racing then just refer them to February, 2015.

The black man pushed off a Paris Metro train by Chelsea football fans chanting a racist song has said the perpetrators must be punished.

French and British police police are investigating whether a group of Chelsea fans who prevented a black man getting on to a Metro train in Paris can be banned from football.

A group of Chelsea thugs prevented a black man getting on to a train in Paris before chanting: “We’re racist and that’s the way we like it.”

On a particularly sad day at Thurles racecourse yesterday, following the death of owner and manager Pierce Molony, the two miles and six plus maiden hurdle was won in impressive fashion by Ryansbrook.

Trainer Gordon Elliott reached a notable milestone in his career — his first century of winners in a National Hunt season — when the Nina Carberry-ridden debutante Myztique landed the mares bumper on Student Day in Fairyhouse yesterday.

Mount Colah gave Banbridge, Co Down trainer, Jerry Cosgrave, his first success at Listed level when landing the Thurles Racecourse Supporters’ Club Chase at Thurles yesterday.

Chieftain’s Choice annihilated his rivals in the Pin Point Training Novices’ Hurdle, initiating a treble on for champion jockey Tony McCoy at Catterick yesterday.