Connections of Maureen report the talented filly to have benefited from a two-month absence from the track ahead of her run in the Jaguar Cars Cheveley Park Stakes at Newmarket today.

Francois Doumen has decided upon a return to Newmarket for Siyouma in the Kingdom Of Bahrain Sun Chariot Stakes on September 29.

Leopardstown’s Racing and Operations manager Nessa Joyce is expecting next weekend’s Red Mills Irish Champion Stakes to be run on a sound surface.

THE classy Thomas Edison should prove hard to beat in the Dawn Omega Milk Novice Hurdle at Killarney this afternoon.

A French victory in Newmarket’s Etihad Airways Falmouth Stakes had been expected yesterday but it came through the less obvious source of the Alain de Royer-Dupre-trained Giofra.