Ballydoyle debutant Ernest Hemingway proved the undoubted star of last night’s action in Dundalk, romping to an impressive ten lengths win in the Irish Stallion Farms Maiden to spark a double for Aidan and Joseph O’Brien.

Shane ‘Dusty’ Foley stole the show in Dundalk last night, completing a superb double on Marvada and Banna Boirche.

More than 12,000 students produced what, I suppose, could be described as a Cheltenham-type atmosphere at Limerick last evening.

Rory Golden was the first Irishman to dive to the wreck and he was the one who retrieved the wheel, says Jonathan deBurca Butler

WITH stable-jockey Kevin Manning on duty in Dubai (he rode Hurricane Havoc to finish fourth in the Group 2 Cape Verdi yesterday), Rory Cleary proved an able deputy when providing Jim Bolger with a double, on Heir To The Mint and General Bunching at Dundalk last night.

ON a day when classy stable-companion Banimpire was sold for €2.3m at Goffs, Glor Na Mara belatedly opened his account - at the sixteenth attempt - when romping to a facile win in the bookings@dundalkstadium.com Maiden at Dundalk.

MINSK justified favouritism in the Hacketts Bookmakers Irish Cesarewitch in impressive style at the Curragh yesterday, highlight of a superb treble for trainer John Oxx.

DAHINDAR proved his liking for Dundalk’s all-weather surface when landing the featured www.dundalkstadium.com Handicap at the Louth venue last night.

Tommy Stack served notice of his early-season potency with a double at the Curragh this afternoon.