Voy Por Ustedes, trained by Alan King and ridden by Robert Thornton, won the Seasons Holidays Queen Mother Champion Chase, the feature race on the second day of the 2007 Cheltenham Festival.

Timmy Murphy is 5-4 favourite with the sponsors to be leading jockey at the three-day Paddy Power Open meeting at Cheltenham this weekend.

Rooster Booster will face an easier task than expected tomorrow when he makes his seasonal reappearance in the Tote Bula Hurdle, following the defection of Australian import Specular.

Mining company Minco will begin a joint venture drilling programme with Noranda in 2004 on what it termed 'world-class zinc properties' in Co Limerick.