Danny Barry, who worked for the late Gordon Richards for over nine years but is now based near Dundalk, had Irish eyes smiling as he completed 65-1 double with the well-backed pair Black Chalk and Bogus Dreams at Musselburgh.

THE layers again took on another of Aidan O’Brien’s juveniles – the Storm Cat colt Dark Cheetah – in the Fermoy Maiden at Cork last night.

Richard Johnson took the riding honours at Uttoxeter today with a double initiated when The Extra Man made all to land the Leek Brewery Novices’ Chase.

Keith Dalgleish and Paul Hanagan profited from Richard Hughes’s absence at Hamilton to ride their first winners for Barry Hills.