The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey ***

Were it not for the introduction of de rigueur 3D, this fourth computer-animated feature based on JM Barrie’s scantily-clad fairy would surely have fluttered straight to DVD.

PERIWINKLE LAD, the medium of some less than complimentary remarks by his trainer in the past, gets the nap to defy top weight in the Pickardstown Handicap Hurdle at Tramore this afternoon.

CONOR O’DWYER completed a double at Thurles yesterday, enjoying armchair rides aboard Scarthy Lad and Eskimo Jack.