I have said it more than once here that you just have to take what racing throws at you. It’s a great leveller and some days you get a kick in the teeth but on others things work out well.

BILL HARNEY, currently hospitalised, had a welcome boost when Prairie Call landed the Cashel Mares Maiden Hurdle at Thurles yesterday.

FAME And Glory is as short as 5-2 favourite for the Investec Derby after a thoroughly professional display in the Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial Stakes at Leopardstown yesterday.

PAUL NOLAN’S See U Bob made all the running to take a dramatic Ladbrokes Odds On Loyalty Card Handicap Hurdle at sun-drenched Killarney yesterday.

ROOT CAUSE, treated to a day out at Laytown previously, got off the mark over jumps when landing the www.tramore-racecourse.com Maiden Hurdle at the Waterford track yesterday.

“I’M a natural lightweight”, quipped Robbie McNamara, very much tongue-in-cheek, after the 19-year-old had powered Dermot Weld’s Majestic Concorde to victory in the GPT Handicap at the first stage of the Galway Festival last night.

ERIC McNAMARA produced a fine training performance to land the Grade 3 Kevin McManus Bookmaker Grimes Hurdle with Larkwing at Tipperary yesterday.

JOHN McCONNELL, who moved from his Monaghan base to the Curragh last week, was on the mark at Cork yesterday when Coolnaharan landed the Alchemy Properties Handicap Hurdle.

KATIE WALSH enjoyed her first success over flights when guiding Parrot Cay, trained by her father, Ted, to win the Cashel Maiden Hurdle in very testing conditions at Thurles yesterday.

IF a future star has been seen so far at Listowel this week then it is surely Charlie Swan’s One Cool Cookie yesterday.

DUNDRUM, Co Tipperary trainer, Mick Murphy, enjoyed his biggest success to date when Jubilant Note stormed away with the Listowel Races Supporters' Club Lartigue Handicap Hurdle at the Kerry track yesterday.

WILLIE MULLINS has yet another major string to his Cheltenham bow, following newcomer Ballytrim’s annihilation of the opposition in the Bumper at Thurles yesterday.

ONE COOL CAT stamped himself a very exciting juvenile with an effortless success in the Group Three Dubai Duty Free Anglesey Stakes at the Curragh yesterday.