My Valley and Mountain Snow, who finished first and second in the Tote Jackpot Handicap 12 months ago, filled the same two positions again.

Jupiter Pluvius maintained his unbeaten record in the Killavullan Stakes at Leopardstown to provide a bright spot for Aidan O'Brien today.

SHANE JACKSON, one of the rising young stars of Irish racing, gave Dark Bolero a copybook drive to land the featured Guinness Handicap Hurdle at Listowel yesterday.

“HE’LL be a better horse next year”, quipped Ruby Walsh after he had guided the teenager, Adamant Approach, to victory in the Gleneagle Summer Cabaret Chase at Killarney last night.

ON YOU GO, the first horse Eugene O’Sullivan has had for J P McManus, gave the trainer his first winner at Tipperary when landing the John Harney Bookmaker Handicap Chase last night.

ON Sunday, Davy Russell had an afternoon to forget at Killarney, but redressed the balance aboard Farmer Brown in the Laurels’ Bar Hurdle back at the track last night.

THE Bowe family, who have produced superb racehorses over the years such as Limestone Lad and Solerina, are on the march again.

NOEL MEADE bounced back from the defeat of Harchibald at Tipperary on Sunday to take the training honours at Roscommon yesterday, recording a superb treble with Attercliffe, Ballyagran and Hotel Hilamar.

LE LEOPARD is proving a tremendous money-spinner for the Dermot Weld stable this summer and completed a fine hat-trick in the Eastwood Bookmakers.Com Race at Downpatrick yesterday.

DANDY MAN confirmed he is the best sprinter this country has produced for a while with a scintillating display in the Listed King Of Beers Stakes at the Curragh yesterday, writes Pat Keane.

FORMER government Minister, Jim McDaid, in the news for others reasons this week, enjoyed a change of luck at Tramore yesterday.

EDDIE HALES, based at Dundrum, Co Tipperary and one of the more colourful characters in the game, enjoyed a welcome turn when Public Reaction sprang a 16-1 surprise in the two mile October Race at Thurles yesterday.

LUAS LINE booked her ticket to America for the Garden State Breeders Cup next month when scoring a smooth success in the featured Denny Cordell Lavarack Memorial Fillies Stakes at Gowran Park yesterday.

HAPPY TO CHAT gets the nap to overcome a serious bout of seconditis in the State Street Ireland EBF Fillies Maiden at Gowran Park this evening.

JIM BOLGER took the training honours with a double in glorious sunshine at Gowran Park yesterday initiated by the well-backed Nyasa, who landed a tidy gamble when she took the mile handicap.

SOLSKJAER, enterprisingly ridden by Seamus Heffernan, landed the listed Heritage Stakes for Aidan O’Brien at Leopardstown yesterday.

DERMOT WELD’S Mermaid Island, a costly failure on bad ground at Listowel, made no mistake in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Median Auction Maiden at a sparsely attended Thurles yesterday.

“RUBY WALSH again, what more can you say”, exclaimed trainer, Michael Philips, after he had watched the maestro pilot his Red Square Lady to victory in the Sand and Gravel Products Hurdle at Cork last night.

CURRENT Prix de L'Arc de Triomphe favourite, High Chaparral, is one of those currently coughing at Ballydoyle.