Theophilus can take the closing race on a tricky card this afternoon at Punchestown.

Here’s a tip for the remaining few weeks of the flat campaign: Keep Aidan O’Brien very much on your side.

This afternoon’s meeting at Naas features some very interesting and potentially informative maidens, but the nap comes in the shape of Landofhopeandglory, who can follow up his debut success in the Premier Nursery.

Watching Jim Bolger’s Smash Williams streaking away with a Group 3 at the Curragh last Sunday, it struck me that here is a man who hasn’t half stood the test of time.

Buratino is set to take on the might of Ballydoyle after being confirmed for the Keeneland Phoenix Stakes at the Curragh on Sunday.

Tanaza made it two wins in as many starts as she claimed Group Three honours in the Jockey Club of Turkey Silver Flash Stakes at Leopardstown last night.

Toscanini and Queen Of Sicily, trained by Michael Halford and Jim Bolger respectively, provided the powerful Godolphin team with a double in Naas last night.

Morning Mix, narrowly beaten at listed level last time, looks the best bet on tonight’s card in the Curragh.

You’d imagine that just about anything is now possible as far as Dermot Weld’s Free Eagle is concerned for the rest of the season.

Andre Fabre’s Territories has been ruled out of Tuesday’s St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot due to a setback.

Outsider of the small field, Tennessee Wildcat captured the listed Copper Face Jacks Glencairn Stakes under Colin Keane at Leopardstown last night.

Godolphin have snapped up Irish 1,000 Guineas winner Pleascach and she will carry their colours when she runs in the Ribblesdale Stakes at Royal Ascot next week.

Impressive on his debut over course and distance last month, Argentero will be expected to book his ticket to Royal Ascot by winning tonight’s Fishery Lane 2-Y-0 Race in Naas.

David O'Meara's Watchable clung on to victory in the Irish Stallion Farms European Breeders Fund "Bold Lad" Sprint Handicap at the Curragh.

Jim Bolger’s once-raced Ring Chief can land the Sligo Champion Supporting Sligo GAA Maiden at the western track tonight.

The nap vote at the Curragh tomorrow goes to Michael Halford’s once-raced Portage in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Maiden.

It really is the calm before the storm in Irish racing this weekend.

Odds-on favourite Gleneagles and 14/1 shot Jack Naylor grabbed the Group 3 glory in last night’s two-year-old twin features at Leopardstown.

Aidan O’Brien’s Palace arrived late and fast to land the Listed Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Cairn Rouge Stakes at Killarney last night.

Tom Mullins and Paul Townend, who teamed up to win with Elsie at Roscommon on Tuesday, again join forces at Cork tonight with Grand Partner and the six-year-old is fancied to land the nap in the Great Value Social Package Maiden Hurdle.

Pleascach turned out quickly at Leopardstown last night and made it pay with an impressive success in the Irish Stallion Farms European Breeders Fund Maiden for Jim Bolger and Kevin Manning.

Having bagged a brace of winners in Down Royal on Saturday, Ger Lyons and his new stable-jockey Colin Keane doubled-up again, with Adroit and Toccata Blue in Gowran Park yesterday.

Tarfasha roared into the Investec Oaks picture when winning the Irish Stallion Farms European Breeders Fund Blue Wind Stakes at Naas with real authority for Dermot Weld and Pat Smullen.

Dermot Weld’s Vintage Nouveau, fourth on her debut at Dundalk, cruised to victory in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Fillies Maiden at Clonmel last night.

Jim Bolger certainly doesn’t believe in wrapping his horses in cotton wool and two of them making quick reappearances at Clonmel this evening, Stirabout and Chance To Dance, are fancied to deliver.

Voleuse De Coeurs gave trainer Dermot Weld a seventh Gain Irish St. Leger success when romping to an impressive six lengths win over Ahzeemah in the Curragh classic yesterday.

Trading Leather is on course for the Juddmonte International Stakes at York on August 21.

Colin Keane, arguably the most talented young rider in the country, enjoyed the biggest success of his fledgling career when guiding Brendan Bracken to victory in the Topaz Mile Handicap at Galway last night.

Dermot Weld’s once-raced Tarfasha should prove hard to beat in the Topaz EBF Fillies Maiden at Galway this evening.

The Galway extravaganza kicks away on Monday and it is a real case of the calm before the storm, with Wexford this afternoon the only meeting in Ireland for the weekend.

Trading Leather attempts to come out of his stablemate Dawn Approach’s shadow when he lines-up for the King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot today.

Teocht is the nap choice to score at the fourth time of asking in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Fillies Maiden at Leopardstown tonight.

Twenty-one years after the brilliant St Jovite gave him his only previous success in the Irish Derby, Jim Bolger won the race again at the Curragh on Saturday when trading Leather landed Ireland’s premier classic.

Placed in both the Dante Stakes in York and the Irish 2,000 Guineas, Trading Leather made it third-time-lucky as a three-year-old and booked his ticket to the Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby when justifying 5/4 favouritism in the listed TRM Silver Stakes in the Curragh yesterday.

The Tony Martin-trained Green Dragon was the medium of a minor touch in the TipperaryRaces.ie Maiden Hurdle at Tipperary last night.

Jockey Joseph O’Brien is hoping the rain stays away from Leopardstown to allow Battle Of Marengo to show his full potential in the Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial tomorrow.

Jim Bolger could run both Loch Garman and Trading Leather in the Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial at Leopardstown on May 12.

Jim Bolger continued his remarkable early-season form with a 510/1 treble in Gowran Park yesterday.

Off the track since landing the Dubai Dewhurst Stakes in Newmarket in October 2011, Parish Hall made a successful return to action when landing the listed Irish Open Alleged Stakes at the Curragh yesterday.

At a stage in life when most people have long since summoned the pipe and slippers, Jim Bolger is showing absolutely no signs of slowing down.

New Approach’s stud fee has more than doubled for 2013 after a hugely successful first season for his progeny on the track.