Odds-on favourite St. Nicholas Abbey was upstaged by 66/1 stable-companion Windsor Palace in a bizarre renewal of the Group 3 High Chaparral Mooresbridge Stakes at the Curragh yesterday.

THE high-class St Nicholas Abbey is difficult to oppose in the Group 3 High Chaparral EBF Mooresbridge Stakes at the Curragh this afternoon.

English challenger Spirit Quartz can provide the answer to the Listed five furlongs Woodlands Stakes at Naas this afternoon.

If there was one horse about which to get excited at Leopardstown last Sunday then it was surely John Oxx’s Sharestan.

ZARIYNA can get us away to the perfect start by landing the opening one mile Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Fillies Maiden at Dundalk tonight.

Light Heavy will go the Curragh route according to trainer Jim Bolger, following his emphatic success in the Group 3 P W McGrath Memorial Ballysax Stakes at Leopardstown.

TRYING to hang your hat on one horse at Tramore this afternoon isn’t easy, but perhaps Mouse Morris’ Groomed will oblige in the Lisaleen Schooling Grounds Maiden Hurdle.

Dermot Weld has made a solid start to the flat season and Exhortation can prove another for him in the thetote.com Median Auction Maiden at Dundalk tonight.

Blinkered for the first time, the David Wachman-trained Chrysanthemum landed the first stakes race of the new flat season, the Group 3 Lodge Park Stud Park Express Stakes, when proving too strong for favourite Twirl and Princess Sinead in glorious sunshine at the Curragh yesterday.