MICHAEL Halford described Casamento as by far the best horse he has trained after the colt gave him his biggest ever success in the Juddmonte Beresford Stakes at the Curragh yesterfday.

CHARLES BYRNES produced one of the great training performances at Listowel yesterday when landing the Guinness Kerry National with Alfa Beat.

RAJIK completed a hat-trick when producing a gutsy performance in the listed Ardilaun Hotel Oyster Stakes at Galway yesterday, getting up close home to foil fellow joint-favourite Address Unknown by a head.

Star TV plans to lay off or redeploy 100 Hong Kong employees, many of them on the technical side of the business, the South China Morning Post reported on Saturday, citing company officials.