ALPINE GLADE put up a smashing performance to defy top weight in the lakehotel.com Handicap Hurdle at Killarney last night.

Now he has an injury on top of his personal woes there must be fresh doubt whether Tiger Woods will make the trips across the Atlantic for July’s Open Championship and October’s Ryder Cup.

EDWARD O’GRADY ran two in the Metal Man Novice Hurdle at Tamore yesterday and they totally dominated the finish.

GALILEO’S CHOICE gets the nap in the Listowel Printing Works Maiden on the sixth day of the Festival this afternoon.

Ireland coach Declan Kidney does not believe the poor form of French clubs in this season’s Heineken Cup will have a detrimental effect on the national side during the Six Nations.

The carcasses of three bottlenose dolphins – including a calf – have been found dumped near a holding pen in the Solomon Islands where controversial exports of the mammals are planned.

KNOW of anyone, prior to the race now, who thought Sunday’s renewal of the Budweiser Irish Derby wasn’t sub-standard?

COCKNEY Rebel and Vital Equine spearhead the 20 horses still engaged in Saturday’s Boylesports Irish 2000 Guineas at the five-day confirmation stage.

Cockney Rebel and Vital Equine spearhead the 20 horses still engaged in Saturday’s Boylesports Irish 2000 Guineas at the five-day confirmation stage.

SUMATRAN tigers Sigra and Indah, as the proud parents of triplets, have made their small but significant contribution to the preservation of one of the world’s most endangered species.