Joseph O’Brien takes the ride on Maybe in the Investec Oaks on Friday for the first leg of what could be a famous Classic double for the young rider at Epsom.

The Fugue was catapulted towards the head of the betting for the Investec Oaks after an imperious display in the Tattersalls Musidora Stakes at York yesterday.

Aidan O’Brien has any amount of fillies to choose from for the Oaks and Twirl can add her name to the list with victory in the Tattersalls Musidora Stakes at York today.

Blinkered for the first time, the David Wachman-trained Chrysanthemum landed the first stakes race of the new flat season, the Group 3 Lodge Park Stud Park Express Stakes, when proving too strong for favourite Twirl and Princess Sinead in glorious sunshine at the Curragh yesterday.

BLARNEY trainer John Linehan enjoyed his best season as a trainer last year and 2012 has got off to a smashing start also.

CAMELOT and Dabirsim were ranked the joint top two-year-olds of last season following the unveiling of the European Classifications in London this afternoon.

DESPITE the gloomy economic climate, it has been a tremendous year for greyhound racing.

Twirl continued Aidan O'Brien's excellent weekend with a bloodless victory in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Fillies Maiden at Leopardstown.

A massive crowd is expected to pour through the turnstiles of Shelbourne Park for tonight's semi-finals of the Ladbrokes.com Irish Derby and punters will be hoping for kinder results than seven days ago.

THE anticipated announcement of the new chairman of the Irish Greyhound Board didn’t materialise yesterday but word is now expected before the end of the week.