Shop Dj, on her return to fences, is the nap choice in the John Fowler Memorial EBF Mares’ Chase at Fairyhouse this evening.

BRYAN COOPER gave further evidence of his growing standing within the game when producing Frisco Depot with impeccable timing to take the Grade 2 Hugh McMahon Memorial Novice Chase at Limerick yesterday.

BRILLIANT mare Voler La Vedette rallied in terrific style to snatch the Grade 2 Keelings Irish Strawberry Hurdle.

IT WAS supposed to be a Labour Party gig but there wasn’t all that much about Labour’s core values or policies — instead it was all about Fianna Fáil.

WILLIE MULLINS landed the Grade 2 Slaney Hurdle at Naas yesterday, not with 6/4 favourite Bishopsfurze, but with front-running Gagewell Flyer, enterprisingly ridden by the trainer’s nephew Emmet.

OWNER Seamus Murphy and trainer Peter Casey crowned a memorable Sunday when ten-year-old Jack The Bus landed the €85,000 Ladbrokes.com Troytown Handicap Chase at Navan yesterday.

LIBANO should prove tough to beat in the Group 3 www.thetote.com Gladness Stakes at the Curragh tomorrow.

PERSIAN CITY was introduced at 40/1 by Cashmans for the Ballymore Properties Novices’ Hurdle at Cheltenham following his smooth success in the INH Stallion Owners’ EBF Novice Hurdle at Limerick yesterday.

IN the political sense, the country is now morally bankrupt. And that’s official. The high moral ground has been vacated by the Progressive Democrats and apartments are to be built on it.

AN inspector with the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) said yesterday that he was unconcerned by a gas pipeline running through the site of a proposed hazardous waste incinerator plant at Ringaskiddy, Co Cork.