Things didn’t all go to plan yesterday but you won’t complain with two winners nonetheless. I picked the wrong one big time in the Champion Chase and my hope that Champagne Fever might reproduce his best form proved unfounded. It was 50-50 with Felix Yonger and it didn’t surprise me that he stuck it out so well in the end.

Fortune has not always favoured Noel Meade at the Cheltenham Festival, but the seven-times champion Irish trainer is hoping Road To Riches can enjoy the rub of the green in this year’s Gold Cup.

Trainer Shark Hanlon is leaning towards the Ryanair Chase with Hidden Cyclone following Cue Card’s defection.

Road To Riches is likely to feature at Down Royal’s big meeting on November 1 following his narrow reverse to Sizing Europe at Gowran on Saturday.

Noel Meade’s Galway Plate hero Road To Riches is set to be seen next at Down Royal in November.

Noel Meade, a trainer with a long history at Galway, saddled his first winner of the Plate when Road To Riches ran his rivals ragged at Ballybrit yesterday.

Road To Riches survived a late blunder to justify odds-on favouritism in the Cork Stayers Novice Hurdle.

Bells tolled throughout New York City and mourners observed a moment of silence to mark the time terrorists began their attack on the US nine years ago.

A “violent and controlling” handyman was jailed today for smothering his six-week-old daughter 25 years ago.

Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Mass in New York’s Yankee Stadium, telling his American flock to use its freedoms wisely as he ended his first papal trip to the US.

Rags To Riches is set to drop back to 10 furlongs after her thrilling success in the Belmont Stakes.

Rags To Riches became the first filly to win the Belmont Stakes in 102 years when she got the better of Curlin in a thrilling battle for the final leg of the American Triple Crown in New York.

Russian sailors rescued with British help after three days trapped in a mini-submarine deep in the Pacific revealed today how they struggled with rapidly decreasing water and oxygen supplies while waiting anxiously in the darkness and cold.

WITH three races at the Avon Tyres British Formula 3 Championship at Snetterton, the pendulum has swung back in favour of Robbie Kerr, who netted two wins yesterday.