Bryan Smart’s Hellvelyn flies the flag for Britain in the Independent Waterford Wedgwood Phoenix Stakes at the Curragh on Sunday.

DANDY MAN confirmed he is the best sprinter this country has produced for a while with a scintillating display in the Listed King Of Beers Stakes at the Curragh yesterday, writes Pat Keane.

I suppose one has to row in with George Washington to land the Boylesports Irish 2000 Guineas at the Curragh this afternoon.

Two men died in a plane crash in north Oxfordshire, police said today.

A former music teacher was hoping to enter the record books today as the first solo woman pilot to circumnavigate the world via Australia and the Pacific in the smallest aircraft.