Hearts Of Fire provided the Pat Eddery team with Italian Group One glory in the Gran Criterium at San Siro racecourse in Milan.

Irish horses are forecast to dominate the finish of Saturday's Investec Derby and a happy party from Co Tipperary started the invasion early by making off with a double at Lingfield today.

EDDIE AHERN will miss the second and third days of the Craven meeting at Newmarket next week after receiving a suspension for a whip offence when winning on Palamedes at Windsor yesterday.