AIDAN O’BRIEN is a hot favourite to continue his remarkable season and secure his 19th Group One victory of the year in the Tattersalls Millions Irish Champion Stakes on Saturday.

Few will forget the epic battle between Seb Sanders and Jamie Spencer as the race for last season’s champion-jockey title went to the wire in the final race of the campaign.

Again repelled the late challenge of Shimah to land the Group One Moyglare Stud Stakes.

SEAMUS Heffernan is “quietly confident” of bagging his third Irish Group One success of the season when he teams up with Again in the Moyglare Stud Stakes at the Curragh tomorrow.

THE BAY LAD, a nine-year-old who has never won a race, gets the nap to land the Martin Reilly Hyundai Maiden Hurdle at Sligo this evening.

IT’S a case of the calm before the storm in Ireland this weekend, with the Curragh tomorrow the only meeting prior to the start of the Galway extravaganza on Monday.

Michael Bell’s Art Connoisseur is the only British entry among a total of nine in Sunday’s Independent Waterford Wedgwood Phoenix Stakes at the Curragh.

PROFOUND BEAUTY has a leading chance in the Listed Challenge Stakes at Leopardstown tonight.

ONCE-RACED Honoria can get us away to the perfect start for Derby weekend by landing the Kildare Village Maiden at the Curragh tonight.

A colleague asked me last Friday if I thought Kieren Fallon or Johnny Murtagh was the better jockey.

DBEST can live up to his name by running 13 rivals ragged in the ladbrokes.com Handicap at Down Royal today.