MATTERS AT HAND can continue Dermot Weld’s excellent week by landing the Publicans’ EBF Maiden at Galway tonight.

John Dunlop reports Muthabara to be thriving as the one-time Classic hope limbers up for a first crack at a mile and a quarter in the Blue Square Nassau Stakes at the beginning of next month.

Red Dune verified the market buzz with an impressive front-running performance to get a drizzly Newmarket July Festival underway.

John Gosden is hoping the decision to bypass the Vodafone Derby with Bronze Cannon can pay off at Royal Ascot on Friday.

DERMOT WELD’S Almolahek can land an above average contest for the track, the Glenville Bar And Lounge Maiden at Wexford this evening.

Moiqen earned a 40-1 quote with Cashmans for the Vodafone Derby when providing trainer Kevin Prendergast with a second successive victory in the P.W McGrath Memorial Ballysax Stakes at Leopardstown.

Willie Supple and Richard Mullen were both among the winners as the new UAE season got under way at Nad Al Sheba.

George Washington is odds-on to enhance his Classic credentials in the Group One Independent Waterford Wedgwood Phoenix Stakes at the Curragh on Sunday.

VAGUE produced a massively improved performance to take second at Royal Ascot at York last month and should have tremendous claims of going one place better at Sandown today.

Vodafone Oaks heroine Casual Look has been retired following her defeat at Churchill Downs at the weekend, reports the thoroughbredtimes website.

Contraband and crack Irish jockey Johnny Murtagh look a formidable partnership in the £190,000 Tote Ebor at York.

LEOPARDSTOWN tomorrow promises some terrific fare with four of the leading contenders for the Epsom Derby set to strut their stuff.

BARTON will try to redeem his reputation next week at Aintree where he has recorded two of his most important victories.