THE gradual thaw has greatly improved conditions on most coursing stretches around the country, resulting in most meetings going ahead this weekend.

MARWOOD TYPE, owned by the Enniscorthy partnership of Davey Morris and Pee Tobin, proved an impressive winner of the Rex Colgan Memorial Cup for bitches at Castletowngeoghegan yesterday.

KIEREN FALLON, suffering from a sore neck, missed Cork yesterday and was replaced aboard Beauty Bright in the opening Coolmore Stud Choisir EBF Maiden by Ballydoyle apprentice, Sean Levey.