THE locally trained Spill The Beans gets the nap in the www.tramore-racecourse.com Maiden Hurdle at the Waterford track today.

What a start it was for the Galway festival with an increase in attendance figures on the Monday from last year.

The Goffs Land Rover Sales were on Wednesday and Thursday and while the official figures would indicate that it was a success, given slight increases on 2009, I still think it was tricky enough.

YOU love to see a pony or horse that has been a good servant for you doing well when it moves on to someone else.

HIGH-CLASS mare Profound Beauty proved herself on course for a return to Flemington in November, for the Melbourne Cup, when turning over Ballydoyle hot-pot Age Of Aquarius in the listed Saval Beg Stakes at Leopardstown yesterday.