Maintaining a dense leafy grass sward will help keep out docks and other weed species.

ALL the security and all the worry and the only one who reared up on the queen was a horse.

A MASSIVE 5,000 kilometres of new native Irish hedgerows will be planted in the next few years by 15,000 farmers. A further 2,800km of existing hedgerows will be rejuvenated.

WHAT’SONYOURMIND booked his ticket to the Weatherbys Champion Bumper at Cheltenham when making a successful debut, in very testing conditions, at Navan yesterday.

JUST hours after returning from Australia, where he starred as a member of the Irish team in the annual Jump Jockeys Challenge, Robert Power celebrated his homecoming when partnering Star Horse to an all-the-way win in the Athleague Novice Hurdle at Roscommon last night.