FRAN BERRY continues to blaze the trail in the jockeys’ championship, moving two clear of Michael Kinane when partnering the evergreen Penny Rich to victory in the Slievenamon Claiming Race at Clonmel last night.

TOM TAAFFE, very much looking forward to throwing down the gauntlet to Beef Or Salmon with Kicking King in Saturday’s James Nicholson at Down Royal, was on the mark at Clonmel yesterday when Man About Town justified favouritism in the John Costigan Memorial Novice Hurdle.

ONE intrepid layer went 1-2 Aidan O’Brien’s newcomer, In Excelsis, in the Irish Stallion Farms’ Maiden at Tipperary last night and was quickly accommodated.