ON a day when Pat Smullen clinched the Jockeys Championship with a double on Hawa Bali and Elusive Ridge, Joseph O’Brien kept his hopes of snatching the apprentice title alive with a double on Alexander Pope and Mr Pianist at Dundalk yesterday.

SWISS parliamentarians yesterday backed their government for ordering the arrest of Roman Polanski on a US warrant for having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977.

Here is a complete list of winners at the 75th annual Academy Awards, presented at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles: