Briar Hill, winner of the Weatherbys Champion Bumper at the Cheltenham Festival in March, made a successful start over hurdles when justifying 1/9 favouritism in the opening Supporters Club AGM & Table Quiz Maiden Hurdle in Wexford yesterday, continuing the superb form of champion trainer Willie Mullins and Ruby Walsh.

Michael Hourigan’s Tropical Three, backed at 4-1 in the morning and returned the 13-8 favourite, won the ITBA Fillies Scheme Hurdle at Listowel yesterday.

Gordon Elliott’s Roi Du Mee toyed with the opposition on his way to landing the featured John Meagher Memorial Chase at Thurles yesterday.

Ladbrokes feel they are “dangling a carrot” for punters by easing Camelot’s odds ahead of his bid for Triple Crown glory in tomorrow’s St Leger at Doncaster.

SWORD Of Destiny will be strongly-fancied to continue the hot form of Noel Meade and Paul Carberry in the Follow Punchestown On Facebook Miaden Hurdle when action returns to the Co Kildare track today.

AIDAN O’Brien will launch a four-pronged attack on the Ladbrokes St Leger in his attempt to win the world’s oldest Classic for the fourth time in seven years.

Michael O’Brien thinks it will take “a good horse” to beat his Anglo Irish Bank Supreme Novices’ Hurdle fancy De Valira at the Cheltenham Festival in March.

FRANKIE DETTORI believes he has a live chance of winning the Ladbrokes St Leger for a fourth time aboard Sixties Icon at York today.

Scorpion and Walk In The Park, second in the Irish and English Derby respectively, head 39 entries for the Ladbrokes St Leger at Doncaster on September 10.

It is incredible to think that Frankie Dettori, the rider who has broken down barriers and taken racing to the wider public, has yet to win the world’s most famous race.