Airlie Beach rounded off her racing career in tremendous style with a typically game success in the Ardilaun Hotel Oyster Stakes at Galway.

Fox Norton followed up his Aintree success by taking the scalp of Un De Sceaux in the BoyleSports Champion Chase at Punchestown.

Sizing John gave Irish trainer Jessica Harrington her first victory in the Timico Cheltenham Gold Cup with her first runner when coming home a clear-cut winner of jumping's blue riband prize.

Min boosted his reputation with a sparkling performance in the Racing Post Novice Chase at Leopardstown.

Bapaume claimed the scalp of Landofhopeandglory in the Knight Frank Juvenile Hurdle at Leopardstown.

Paul Nicholls has won a 10th National Hunt trainers' championship at Sandown following second place for Just A Par in the bet365 Gold Cup.

Sprinter Sacre's rehabilitation took on another level at Sandown with a display of brilliance in the bet365 Celebration Chase.

Sempre Medici is expected to enhance Willie Mullins’ excellent recent record in the Red Mills Trial Hurdle at Gowran Park on Saturday.

Champion trainer Willie Mullins won the Grade 2 Navan Novice Hurdle for the fourth time in five years when Bellshill, ridden by Ruby Walsh, proved an impressive twelve lengths winner of yesterday’s feature in Navan.

Apart from the pick of Willie Mullins' crop, what horse would Ruby Walsh love to ride?

Willie Mullins' inconsistent Twinlight proved that when things fall in his favour he is a very good horse as he won the Paddy Power Dial-A-Bet Chase at Leopardstown today.

If there is a possible star of the future on show at Roscommon this evening then it is surely Killer Crow in the Four Roads Maiden Hurdle.

Australia has to do more than just win the Epsom Derby on June 7, he has to virtually bolt in if Aidan O’Brien’s blushes are to be saved.

The Punchestown festival will see the end of the National Hunt season in the dying days of this month and into early May.

Tony McCoy was at his brilliant best as the Aidan O'Brien-trained Plinth claimed a last-gasp victory in the Paddy Power iPad App 3-Y-O Maiden Hurdle at Leopardstown.

Two of last season’s star novices could face off in the Bar One Racing Hatton’s Grace Hurdle at Fairyhouse on Sunday with Jezki and Rule The World on course to meet.

Michael Stoute is well aware that Queen Elizabeth’s filly Estimate faces the toughest test of her career in today’s Gold Cup at Royal Ascot.

Navan on Tuesday and Punchestown on Wednesday provided valuable lessons for any punters who thought they had this game cracked.

There were plenty willing to knock Sir Des Champs as a possible Cheltenham Gold Cup winner, following his hard-earned defeat of Flemenstar in the Hennessy at Leopardstown a week ago, but here's one who continues to believe he has a massive chance next month.

Paul Gilligan, who has struggled to make an impact for a number of seasons, hit the jackpot at Gowran Park yesterday when Jadanli landed the valuable Goffs Thyestes Handicap Chase.

The Kevin Prendergast-trained two-year-old filly Spinacre and Willie Mullins’ mare Tarla proved the stars of yesterday’s action in Roscommon.

Princeton Plains is a hopeful choice in a savagely competitive looking Guinness Galway Hurdle at Ballybrit this afternoon.

Quel Esprit is a strong fancy to outstay his rivals in the rescheduled thetote.com Gold Cup at the final stage of a somewhat traumatic Punchestown festival this afternoon.

OVER at Wetherby, Rileyev is sure to be popular in the Yorkshire Post Ladies' Day Handicap Chase (2.20) in what is a step down in grade for him.

IT is very much a case of role reversal for me this weekend. Normally, I'm in England today and back in Ireland tomorrow, but it is the opposite this time round.

Zaidpour had no trouble landing the odds in the Tara Hurdle at Navan this afternoon.

MICKELSON is the hopeful nap choice to get off the mark at the fifth attempt in the Cashel Maiden Hurdle at Clonmel this afternoon.

Paul Townend landed a fairytale first success since returning from injury when driving Blazing Tempo home in thetote.com Galway Plate today.

BLAZING TEMPO, who has clearly been laid out for the race, can land the tote.com Galway Plate at Ballybrit this afternoon.

I’LL be disappointed, very disappointed, if Big Buck’s fails to deliver in the World Hurdle today. He is a really, really good horse, one of the best I have ever sat on, and, essentially, I consider him bombproof.

Garde Champetre repeated his win of 2008 in the Glenfarclass P.P. Hogan Memorial Cross Country Chase at Punchestown this afternoon.

A WORD APART is the nap to a win a hot little claregalwayhotel.ie colts and geldings EBF Maiden at the opening stage of the Galway Festival tonight.

Quevega once again showed a brilliant turn of foot to land the David Nicholson Mares' Hurdle at Cheltenham for the second year in succession.

Morning Supreme maintained her unbeaten record over jumps with a game all-the-way win in the Dawn Omega Milk EBF Mares Novice Hurdle at Limerick.

The prestigious William Hill Galway Plate takes place at Ballybrit today, with 25 runners competing for the €150,000 prize money.

The Galway Hurdle is the aim for Paul Nolan's See U Bob after he ran out a game winner of the Ladbrokes Odds On Loyalty Card Handicap Hurdle at Killarney today.

IT has been a frustrating campaign for Drive On Regardles, but Willie Mullins' charge is fancied to finally deliver in the Great Oak Maiden Hurdle at Gowran Park this afternoon.

THE best horse on show on this St Patrick's Day in Ireland is Willie Mullins' Fiveforthree in the Richard Browne and Sons Ltd Hurdle at Wexford.

Legendary punter JP McManus strengthened his Cheltenham Festival squad as top-class bumper prospect Sweeps Hill opened his account in the Kilternan INH Flat Race at Leopardstown.

NOLAND gets the nap to beat War Of Attrition in the re-scheduled John Durkan Memorial Chase at Punchestown this afternoon.