DUSTY SHEEHY believes a torn muscle may have been responsible for Justified’s below-par run in Sunday’s big race in Ireland.

Turtle Dubh has been given a clean bill of health after his impressive return to action at Punchestown on Sunday.

TOM TAAFFE, who broke the news earlier in the day that Kicking King would miss the Cheltenham Gold Cup, had a modicum of compensation when In The High Grass won the Kanturk Maiden Hurdle at Cork yesterday.