The action moves to Laytown this afternoon, where War Anthem, who has been running well all summer, and can earn overdue reward in the Gilna’s Cottage Inn Maiden.

Viaduct Joey, the oldest horse in the race, can land the Dundalk Stadium Maiden on the all weather tonight.

Third in the Dubai World Cup last March, the Charlie Appleby-trained Cat O’Mountain, in the familiar Goldolphin blue, landed the Group 3 Diamond Stakes in Dundalk last night.

Eye Of The Storm dug deep to strike gold for the first time this year in the Group Three Ballyroan Stakes at Leopardstown last night.

Shield, who has run well of late both on the flat and over flights, can land the bookings@dundalkstadium.com Maiden on the all-weather tonight.

On her first ride on the unique track, Jane Mangan partnered he Peter Fahey-trained mare Saratoga Baby to an emphatic win in the Marquees Nationwide Amateur Handicap at sunny Laytown yesterday.

Teenage sensation Connor King took Cork by storm last night, landing a spectacular four-timer.

In Dubai where he saddled Lily’s Angel’s to triumph on the opening day of the 2013 Carnival in Meydan on Thursday, Ger Lyons missed seeing Machete Mark open his account — at the third attempt — in the Crowne Plaza Hotel Race & Stay Maiden in Dundalk last night.

Always a force at the track, Michael Halford completed a double with favourites Rummaging and Won Diamond in Dundalk last night.

Raptor, a wide-margin winner at Punchestown in May, provided champion trainer Willie Mullins with his fifth winner in three days when justifying odds-on favouritism in the Audrey McGrath Memorial Chase in Wexford yesterday.

In double form two weeks ago, Jim Bolger was on the mark again at Dundalk last night when Kevin Manning provided him with another brace of winners, Naoise and Gort Na Mona.

A trip to Britain, probably Perth next month, is on the cards for Esporao following his all-the-way win in the opening Down District Council Ladies Day At Downpatrick Maiden Hurdle on the Co Down track yesterday.

SUN Disc credited Curragh trainer Dessie Hughes with his 17th winner of the campaign when the filly won the opening maiden hurdle at Down Royal yesterday.

THE Colm Murphy trained Future All Star, patiently handled by John Cullen, foiled front-running longshot Flemross to land the €50,000 Gigginstouse Houe Midlands National in Kilbeggan last night.

ALTHOUGH virtually ignored in the market, the Ruby Walsh ridden Sulwaan made a successful debut for Dermot Weld when proving too strong for Tavern Times and Princeton Plains in the Irish Stallion Farms Novice Hurdle in Sligo yesterday.

OUT of luck on sixth-placed Akdarena in the Investec Oaks at Epsom, Kevin Manning’s dash to the Curragh last night proved worthwhile when Irish Derby-bound Carraiglawn landed the listed Silver Stakes.

ANDREW McNamara doubled-up on Equation and her former stable-companion Fearnwood Girl in last night’s maiden hurdle action in Sligo.

EOIN Doyle and Shay Barry started the New Year as they ended 2009, with a double at Tramore, highlighted by the victory of course specialist The Fonze in the featured Waterford & Tramore Racecourse Supporters Chase, a race in which he finished third last year.

Sixteen-year-old Ronan Whelan enjoyed his second success when producing an accomplished display aboard Puncher Clynch in the featured Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Premier Nursery at Listowel yesterday.

Apprentice jockey Ronan Whelan savoured a fairytale on the third day of the Listowel Harvest Festival as he recorded only his second ever win in the showpiece Irish Stallion Farms EBF Premier Nursery.

NEIL CALLAN, a native of Kildare, rode his first winner at the track when guiding English challenger, Kevin Ryan’s Senor Mirasol, to a smooth victory in the Listed Danehill Dancer Stakes at Tipperary last evening.

PAUL TOWNEND rode his biggest winner to date over jumps when taking the featured Dawn Milk Handicap Hurdle at a packed Killarney yesterday.

THE Tom Foley-trained Dariak sprang a 16/1 shock in the Knockcroghery Hurdle at Roscommon last night.

Loyal Focus is set to make a quick reappearance in Thursday’s Guinness Galway Hurdle after striking on the opening day of the Festival meeting.

Matthew O’Connor delivered Loyal Focus with a perfectly-timed run to claim the GPT Galway (Q.R) Handicap, the feature event on the opening day of the Festival meeting.

EDWARD O’GRADY went to Aintree yesterday to supervise Ned Kelly’s bid for glory in the John Smith’s Foxhunters Chase.

OWNER John Brennan, on the mark at Ballybrit with Cuan Na Grai in the Galway Hurdle and twice with Diego Garcia, completed a memorable week when the Willie Mullins-trained Man On The Nile ran away with the Mallow Hurdle at Cork yesterday.

VETERAN Media Puzzle registered his first win since the 2002 Melbourne Cup when landing the listed Seamus McGrath Memorial Saval Beg Stakes at Leopardstown last night.

TRIKIRK, off the track for almost two years, came late and fast to give Michael Grassick his first winner of the season in the Supporters’ Club Maiden at Tramore last evening.

LUAS LINE booked her ticket to America for the Garden State Breeders Cup next month when scoring a smooth success in the featured Denny Cordell Lavarack Memorial Fillies Stakes at Gowran Park yesterday.

NIALL McCullagh took the riding honours at Roscommon last night when recording a double on Common Venture and Hasainm.

ANTONIUS PIUS, backed as if defeat was out of the question, got a delightful drive from Michael Kinane to land the Group Two Anheuser Busch Railway Stakes at the Curragh yesterday.

DOLMUR earned a crack at the Entenmanns Irish 2000 Guineas later this month, if ground conditions are suitable, when landing the Glanbia Classic Trial for local trainer Tony Mullins at Gowran Park yesterday.