Des O’Sullivan on the discovery of a portrait by Cork’s Daniel Maclise. An x-ray of the painting revealed 70% of it’s surface to be unoriginal.

Wednesday night, upstairs, and my husband is resurrecting his Spiderman Scuttle - something to do with muscle flexion, I seem to remember - which involves scampering sideways, like a crab, back and forth across our bouncy floor-boards so that the bed shakes.

Artful

TOM GEORGE and Paul Nicholls had a complete turnaround in fortunes than when in opposition at Newbury’s previous fixture as Nicholls’ Twist Magic lost his life in a dramatic Peterborough Chase won by the George-trained Tartak.

TWIST MAGIC, so disappointing at Cheltenham, came back to something approaching his best when landing the Kerrygold Champion Chase at Punchestown yesterday.