Michael Lowry has begun to reap the rewards of a winning summer at the racetrack after a filly foal born to his mare in March was sold for €452,025 yesterday.

A FORMER rendering plant hit the market this week, arising from refusals of permission for an incinerator at a site near Rosegreen, Co Tipperary.

TRALEE, whose future is very much in doubt anyway, didn’t have the best of starts to its five-day Festival yesterday, when the meeting was the subject of a bomb scare.

ERIC McNAMARA'S Mareoflot took her total to three wins in four races with a smooth victory in the Martinstown Opportunity Handicap Chase at Cork on Saturday.

Billionaire New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner is coming to the Kentucky Derby with more than another World Series title on his mind. But he has plenty of competition to contend with, reports Simon Lewis