JOHNNY MURTAGH wasted no time getting down to business at Tipperary last night, booting home the first three winners.

Michael Dods has his team in good form and is hoping for better things from Tiger Reigns after watching him get home in game fashion at Ripon today.

Frankie Dettori delighted the sparse Friday afternoon crowd at Newbury with an 181/2-1 double for Godolphin, courtesy of victories for Sand Vixen and Najd.

BANKROBBER is fancied to lighten the bookmakers’ satchels by landing the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Median Auction Maiden at Fairyhouse tonight.

Aidan O’Brien launches a two-pronged assault on the Poule d’Essai des Poulains at Longchamp tomorrow as he seeks a first Classic of the season for Ballydoyle.

Kevin Prendergast is eyeing a possible tilt at Newmarket’s Cheveley Park Stakes for Shimah following her fine effort in defeat at the Curragh on Sunday.

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.

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

Aidan O’Brien captured his fifth Boylesports Irish 2000 Guineas as Henrythenavigator completed a Classic double under Johnny Murtagh at the Curragh.

Top American stallion Storm Cat has been retired due to infertility at the age 25.

THE Curragh this afternoon houses a typically competitive programme and one faces it more in hope than confidence!

Frankie Dettori insists Jalil is capable of denting the lofty reputation of Curlin in Saturday’s Dubai World Cup at Nad Al Sheba.

JIM BOLGER and his stable jockey, Keving Manning, could be the combination to follow at the first stage of Derby weekend at the Curragh this evening.

Excellent Art showed guts and tenacity to edge out Doctor Brown in a memorable finish to the Dubai Duty Free Mill Reef Stakes at Newbury.

SHANE DONOHOE heaped praise on fellow trainer, Charlie Swan, after his Mill House Girl had slammed odds-on Telemachus in the Sean Barrett Bloodstock Insurance Ltd. Novice Hurdle at Tipperary last night.

BLUEGRASS HILL, who performed inexplicably badly at Gowran Park last time, is given the benefit of the doubt in the Irish Rover Dog Treats EBF Maiden at Naas tonight.

THE principal message to emerge from yesterday’s annual press day at Ballydoyle is that George Washington will win the English 2000 Guineas at Newmarket next month-if he gets the trip.

Day Flight returned to his best to floor his rivals with a powerful display in the Stan James St Simon Stakes at Newbury.

ART MUSEUM is an injury worry for today’s Shadwell Stud Middle Park Stakes at Newmarket.

TWO Listed races on the programme and two wins for the the mighty Kieren Fallon was very much the story at Cork yesterday.

LOOK BETWEEN US, trained locally at Banteer by Louis Archdeacon, streaked away with the Carbon Group Handicap Chase at Cork last night.

AIRWAVE ran a valiant race in defeat on her debut for Aidan O’Brien in the Group Three EBF Athasi Stakes at the Curragh yesterday.

Antonius Pius’s waywardness and a troubled passage for Six Perfections cost the European team dear as Singletary hung on grimly to land a dramatic NetJets Breeders’ Cup Mile at Lone Star Park today.

AN all flat card, consisting of four impossible-to-solve handicaps and four rather dreadful maidens, is the fare inflicted on punters at Gowran Park this afternoon.

FORMER Classic hope One Cool Cat has run his last race after breaking down on the Ballydoyle gallops this morning.

Former Classic hope One Cool Cat has run his last race for Aidan O’Brien after breaking down on the Ballydoyle gallops this morning.

Sprint king David Nicholls landed the Victor Chandler Nunthorpe Stakes with 16-1 shot Bahamian Pirate at York today.

CLASSIC disappointment One Cool Cat could revert to sprinting in a bid to get his career back on track at the Curragh on Sunday.

Classic disappointment One Cool Cat could revert to sprinting in a bid to get his career back on track at the Curragh on Sunday.

Aidan O'Brien's classic flop One Cool Cat failed to redeem his tarnished reputation with a disappointing fifth place in the ladbrokes.com International Stakes at the Curragh today.

ONE COOL CAT is set to return to action in the Ladbrokes.com International Stakes at the Curragh this day week.

CLASSIC hero Haafhd will take some beating in the St James’s Palace Stakes on the first day of Royal Ascot today.

One Cool Cat heads 14 runners declared at today’s final 48-hour stage for the UltimateBet.com 2000 Guineas at Newmarket on Saturday.

American Post, a leading fancy for the Vodafone Derby, has just three rivals in his French 2000 Guineas prep race at Longchamp tomorrow.

BOOKMAKER reaction to Grey Swallow’s narrow defeat of Meath in the 2000 Guineas Trial at Leopardstown yesterday was to largely leave his price for the English 2000 Guineas unchanged.

Godolphin are set to have their first runners of the year during the second week of the Dubai International Racing Carnival at Nad Al Sheba.

A trio of Aidan O’Brien-trained three-year-olds are to retire to Coolmore Stud to join the already-announced newcomers High Chaparral, Hawk Wing and Choisir.

One Cool Cat will head straight for the 2000 Guineas – for which he is a red-hot favourite – after emerging triumphant from what was arguably the two-year-old showdown of the year so far at the Curragh yesterday.

VINNIE ROE can land an unprecedented third consecutive win in the Irish Field St Leger at the Curragh today.

Veteran trainer Paddy Mullins weaved his magic with ex-invalid Vintage Tipple, the filly who panics when she leaves home, to land a memorable Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh yesterday.

Maharib completed a hat-trick and earned a possible crack at the English St Leger when proving too good for the favourite Arundel in a keen duel in the IAWS Curragh Cup.

Maharib completed a hat-trick and earned a possible crack at the English St Leger when proving too good for the favourite Arundel in a keen duel in the IAWS Curragh Cup today.

TOMMY STACK’S Swiss Roll gets the nap to land a very competitive Irish Stallion Farms Noblesse Stakes, a Listed event for fillies, at Naas tonight.

ZAFEEN is a hopeful choice to give Mick Channon a first ever classic success in this afternoon’s Entenmann’s Irish 2000 Guineas at the Curragh.