PROUD To Be Irish can give us a big run in the Guinness Galway Hurdle at Ballybrit this afternoon. He represents a combination, Seamus O’Farrell and his son James, who may not be the most fashionable, but whom you underestimate them at your peril.

THE improving Mareoflot can win her third race in four runs by landing the Martinstown Opportunity Handicap Chase at Cork this afternoon.

DAVY RUSSELL, fresh from finishing a creditable third in the jockeys' championship behind Ruby Walsh and Barry Geraghty, is clearly intent on another good campaign.