Two meetings in Ireland today, and Let Her Cry, who contests the opening race at Ballinrobe, can get punters off to a flyer.

Former professional jockey Shay Barry saddled his first double as a handler at yesterday’s Waterford Foxhounds point-to-point fixture.

Sempre Medici is expected to enhance Willie Mullins’ excellent recent record in the Red Mills Trial Hurdle at Gowran Park on Saturday.

Galway hosts the last day of its three-day September meeting, and the Shay Barry-trained Thumb Stone Blues gets the nap to help punters end the festival on a flyer.

The David Wachman-trained Off Limits returned to her best with an impressive victory in the listed Irish Stallion Farms EBF Cairn Rouge Stakes on day one of Killarney’s July festival.

Just a week after registering his first racecourse success on Funny How in Cork, teenager Jack Kennedy hit the headlines with a double, on Eshtiaal and Mutadrik, for Gordon Elliott in Down Royal last night.

Having ended last season with 50 domestic winners to his credit, Bryan Cooper has started the new campaign in good form and doubled-up on board Horendus Hulabaloo in Tipperary last night.

John Oxx might strike with his first runner of 2015, Pour Deux, in tonight’s finale in Dundalk.

Plans for Hidden Cyclone are on hold after the 10-year-old sustained a nasty gash on his leg in the Ryanair Chase at Cheltenham.

The Shay Barry-trained De Bene Esse hinted that a bright track career lies in wait by readily putting his rivals to the sword in the five-year-old geldings’ maiden at yesterday’s Bandon point-to-point meeting, run under the auspices of the Carbery Foxhounds at Kilpatrick.

Shay Barry is looking forward to a trip to the Cheltenham Festival with Bentelimar following his fine performance at Punchestown.

All roads lead back to the Cheltenham Festival for Hidden Cyclone after Shark Hanlon’s pride and joy enjoyed his day in the sun with a fine front-running display in the Boylesports Tied Cottage Chase at Punchestown yesterday.

The Bryan Cooper-Gigginstown House Stud combination struck again at Grade 1 level at Leopardstown yesterday when Don Poli, trained by Willie Mullins, landed a red-hot Topaz Novice Chase.

Shay Barry, who ended a long and successful riding career last year, registered his first training success when Cracked Rear View landed the bumper in Sligo last night, the www.coimtysligoraces.com Pro-Am Flat Race.

The locally trained Starkie, in the care of Henry de Bromhead, won the Waterford and Tramore Racecourse Novice Hurdle at the seaside track yesterday.

Edward O’Grady’s Staying Article, who hadn’t jumped an obstacle in public since finishing a creditable third in a big handicap at Leopardstown in January, produced a fine display to land the Follow Us On Facebook Hurdle at Cork yesterday.

Deal Done, the best backed horse in the contest, continued the terrific run of Bryan Cooper and Dessie Hughes when landing the Wilderness Chase at Clonmel yesterday.

Local hero Shay Barry thrilled his supporters with a 47/1 double on Ordinary Man and Days Ahead in Tramore yesterday.

Davy Russell will remember yesterday’s meeting at Tramore, but for all of the wrong reasons.

FRANCIS McCurtain, who comes from Fermoy, rode his first winner aboard the John Joe Walsh-trained Page Turner in the INH Stallion Owners’ EBF Maiden Hurdle at Limerick yesterday.

OUTSIDER-of-five, My Murphy got the better of odds-on favourite Please Talk in the Grade 3 Dorans Pride Novice Hurdle, feature of yesterday’s action in Limerick.

IT hosted the first race meeting of the new millennium in Europe and later helped punters get used to the euro. Now one of Ireland’s oldest racecourses is to embark on a 12-month celebration to mark its centenary in 2012, but whether the euro is still in circulation is not as certain.

TRAINER Pat Flynn was successful in his appeal against the punishment handed out to him following Mister Music Man’s run at Wexford in October.

RUBY WALSH was quite brilliant in driving Bishopsfurze to victory in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Fund Beginners Chase at Thurles yesterday, one of three winners for the former champion jockey and Willie Mullins.

THE Gigginstown House Stud success story continued at Limerick yesterday when Gift Of Dgab made an excellent debut over fences in the Askeaton Beginners Chase.

THE talented Michael Winters trained Rebel Fitz lit up Cork yesterday with a fine display of front-running to land the INH Stallion Owners’ EBF Novice Hurdle.

TOM Doyle registered his sixth win in a week when Regal D’Estruval made all to land the Dunhill Beginners Chase in emphatic style at windswept Tramore yesterday.

DERINLAUR opened his account over fences, at the seventh attempt, when making all under Denis Hogan to win the www.tipperaryraces.ie Beginners Chase at Tipperary yesterday.

ANDREW Lynch, who will be re-united with two-mile champion chaser Sizing Europe when he makes his seasonal debut in today’s Group 2 feature at Gowran Park, received a timely boost when completing a double on Absolutlyfantastic and Cavita Beta at the Kilkenny track yesterday, where conditions deteriorated due to torrential rain.

ST. DEVOTE, under a strong ride from Barry Geraghty, proved best in the Grade 3 Kilbegnet Novice Chase at Roscommon yesterday.

SHADOW EILE cruised to victory for Shay Barry in the ITBA Fillies Scheme Novice Hurdle at Listowel yesterday.

SHADOW EILE is the nap choice in the ITBA Fillies Scheme Novice Hurdle at Listowel this afternoon.

CHAMPION conditional rider Bryan Cooper reached another notable milestone is his burgeoning career when partnering Pistol Jack to victory in the Ryans Events Cleaners Handicap Chase in Galway yesterday.

KEN CONDON moved his total for the week at the track to three when Peaks Of Fire took the Dawn Omega Milk Maiden at the final stage of Killarney yesterday.

JOHN Kiely’s Oneeightofamile made a victorious return to hurdling in the featured Dermot Casey-Hire Sales and Tree Services Hurdle at Cork’s well-attended jumps fixture last night.

REGAL Ambition, trained by Charlie Swan for his father-in-law Timmy Hyde, held off the late challenge of Cootamundra to land the featured Leo Dolan Memorial Handicap Hurdle at Roscommon last night.

LIAM BURKE’S Ordinary Man finally put it all together to justify favouritism in the Cluain Meala Maiden Hurdle at Clonmel last night.

EOIN DOYLE’S The Fonze won the 16th race of his life when giving an exhibition of jumping in the Limerick Junction Chase at Tipperary last night.

Jockeys Emmet Mullins and Michael Doran will be on the sidelines for at least a month following falls at yesterday’s meeting in Listowel.

KEVIN PRENDERGAST is anticipating a bold show from Kissable when she lines up in the Moyglare Stud Stakes at the Curragh on Sunday.