Pale Mimosa has entered quarantine for the Emirates Melbourne Cup but Dermot Weld has yet to commit to an Australian trip.

Jim Culloty can safely be described as a legend now.

Michael O’Leary was flying higher than Ryanair’s fleet of Boeing 737-800s yesterday after his Gigginstown Stud operation claimed four winners on a crazy and at times controversial closing day of the Cheltenham Festival.

Diplomat booked his ticket to join Dermot Weld’s all-conquering Galway Festival team with an easy victory in the Irish Stallion Farms European Breeders Fund Novice Hurdle at Sligo yesterday.

When Jim Culloty walks through his stables at Mount Corbitt in Churchtown, Cork, he tends to count the heads of his horses.

Niall ‘Boots’ Madden continued his amazing run of success for owner J P McManus when Whatever It Takes landed a tidy gamble in the featured E.P.S. Pumps Handicap Hurdle in Ballinrobe last night.

The John Oxx-trained Harasiya stamped her class on the Group 3 Silver Flash Stakes at Leopardstown last night and was subsequently slashed to 12/1 second favourite (from 25) by Stan James for the 2013 Qipco 1,000 Guineas.

IRISH pharmaceutical company AGI Therapeutics has been sold for less than €7 million, less than five years after being valued at €85m.

ALTHOUGH virtually ignored in the market, the Ruby Walsh ridden Sulwaan made a successful debut for Dermot Weld when proving too strong for Tavern Times and Princeton Plains in the Irish Stallion Farms Novice Hurdle in Sligo yesterday.

THE victory of 14/1 shot Radharcnafarraige in the featured Group 3 Ballyogan Stakes proved the highlight of a double for Jim Bolger and Kevin Manning at Leopardstown last night, when the arrival of heavy showers turned ground conditions to ‘good to yielding’.

JONJO O’NEILL’S Synchronised, the Welsh Grand National winner, heads a 51-strong list of initial acceptors for the €250,000 Ladbrokes’ Irish Grand National at Fairyhouse on Easter Monday.

THE Danny O’Sullivan-trained Benefit Night romped to a shock, all-the-way success in the featured Lucan Racing Leinster National at Naas yesterday.

Michael Halford, who will saddle favourite Casamento in today’s Racing Post Trophy at Doncaster, received a timely boost when Invincible Ash captured the listed Mercury Stakes at Dundalk last night.

RAJIK completed a hat-trick when producing a gutsy performance in the listed Ardilaun Hotel Oyster Stakes at Galway yesterday, getting up close home to foil fellow joint-favourite Address Unknown by a head.

INTERNATIONAL campaigner Dermot Weld avenged the narrow defeats of Vinnie Roe and Vintage Crop in the Gold Cup as Rite Of Passage gallantly claimed the highlight on Ladies’ Day at Royal Ascot yesterday.

FORMER champion, Pat Smullen took the riding honours when recording a fine double at Roscommon last night, highlighted by the all-the-way victory of Royal Intrigue in the Glenman Corporation Limited Building Contractors Lenebane Stakes, the first listed race ever to be run at the western venue.

SHARES in AGI Therapeutics got off to a flyer on the company’s first day of trading on the Dublin and London stock markets yesterday.

A PHARMACEUTICAL company fronted by former Elan executives plans to raise over €40 million from a stock market flotation.

AN offer by Ben Dunne and several businessmen to buy portakabins and equipment for overcrowded A&Es has been turned down by the Health Service Executive (HSE) on health and safety grounds.

PLUSH weddings failed to stop high-flying businessman Michael O’Leary and Westlife star Nicky Byrne from being among the country’s top earners in the past year.

The Leinster and Munster youth teams have been announced for Saturday's interprovincial semi-final in Portlaoise RFC (KO: 1pm).

The Leinster youth team has been named for Saturday's Interprovincial against Munster at Barnhall RFC.