Three bookmakers have been awarded between €23,000 and €48,000 by the High Court arising out of the loss of their betting ring pitch positions at Dundalk racecourse.

Five Claw made every yard of the running to foil uneasy odds-on favourite Song Of Love in the Elusive Pimpernel Maiden in Dundalk last night.

The Andy Oliver-trained debutant Vitally Important looked a smart prospect when bolting-up in the Dundalk Stadium – Light Up Your Night Maiden in Dundalk last night.

Trainer Michael O’Callaghan landed the opening two-year-old maiden in Dundalk last night, not with 13/8 favourite Knoxville Bullet but with the gambled-on debutant Aggression.

Knoxville Bullet looks the banker bet on tonight’s seven-race card in Dundalk.

Dolce N Karama, having a 13th outing, can finally get lucky and enjoy a belated turn in the Crowne Plaza Leading Jockey And Trainer Championship Rated Race at Dundalk tonight.

John Oxx will not look back on 2014 with any great relish, but he might provide the bet of the night at Dundalk with Kadayma in the concluding mile and a half maiden.

On a night when Michael Halford and Shane Foley continued in top form with a 64/1 treble, Plus Ca Change looked a potential stakes-class performer when justifying 5/6 favouritism in the opening Irish Stallion farms 2-Y-0 Fillies Maiden in Dundalk.

Off the track since last March, Afonso De Sousa outclassed his six rivals when repeating last year’s win in the Dundalk Stadium — Light Up Your Night Race in Dundalk last night.

It was Donnacha’s day at Dundalk yesterday as Aidan O’Brien’s younger son registered his first success in the saddle when producing odds-on favourite Quartz with a well-timed late challenge to foil Duchess Andorra by a half-length in the Dundalk Stadium Apprentice Maiden.

Ireland houses two rather drab programmes this weekend, but a winner is a winner and Dessie Hughes’ Icy Reply is fancied to deliver in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Mares’ Hurdle at Navan this afternoon.

Henry de Bromhead’s Enjoy Responsibly is fancied to lead his rivals a merry dance in the Tullamore Maiden Hurdle at Kilbeggan tonight.

Dermot Weld can continue his terrific start to the season by landing the Champions’ Restaurant At Dundalk Stadium Fillies Maiden with Carla Bianca on the all-weather tonight.

Trainer Michael Halford started the New Year at Dundalk in superb form last night, completing a 105/1 treble with Settle For Red, Victors Beach and Senyuman, ridden by apprentices Conor Hoban and Shane Kelly respectively, deputising for suspended stable-jockey Shane Foley.

The consistent, but frustrating, Deep Speed can finally get it right in the Dundalk Stadium-Light Up Your Night Maiden on the all-weather this evening.

Majestic Timeline has put County Roscommon handler Adrian Joyce on the map in his first season as a trainer.

Crimestoppers has launched an appeal for information surrounding an armed robbery on a bookmaker in Co Louth two years ago.

One of the Irish Greyhound Board’s chief internal investigators has accused its chairman of attempting to obstruct an inquiry into a race-fixing scam.

One of the Irish Greyhound Board’s chief internal investigators has accused its chairman of attempting to obstruct an inquiry into a race-fixing scam.

The Ger Lyons-trained Keeping looked a decent prospect when foiling favourite Bint Nayef in the Irish Stallion Farms Fillies Maiden in Dundalk last night.

Pineau De Re, ridden by Danny Mullins for his new boss Barry Connell, stormed to an emphatic win in the Toals Bookmakers Ulster Grand National in Downpatrick yesterday.

Former champion apprentice Gary Carroll ended the 2012 campaign at Dundalk on a high when completing a double on Lily Of Kenmare and Shukhov last night.

The frustrating Rapid Approach is given a final chance to at last get it right in the Dundalk Stadium-Light Up Your Night Maiden on the all-weather this evening.

Lines Of Battle landed the listed Star Appeal 2-Y-0 Stakes for Ballydoyle in convincing style in Dundalk last night.

She has the capacity to bring down a bank, but David Wachman’s Precious Stone is given a final chance to deliver in the Christmas Party Packages Dundalk Stadium Fillies Maiden on the polytrack today.

Joseph O’Brien, who will be in the hot seat on favourite Camelot in Saturday’s Qipco 2,000 Guineas, proved himself in top form with a double in Dundalk last night.

Ballydoyle debutant Ernest Hemingway proved the undoubted star of last night’s action in Dundalk, romping to an impressive ten lengths win in the Irish Stallion Farms Maiden to spark a double for Aidan and Joseph O’Brien.

Shane ‘Dusty’ Foley stole the show in Dundalk last night, completing a superb double on Marvada and Banna Boirche.

THE progressive Roe Deer, a son of the great Vinnie Roe, gets the nap in the Dundalk Stadium On Facebook Maiden on the all-weather tonight.

GLOR NA MARA, a professional loser, gets the nap to finally put it all together in the Follow Dundalk Stadium On Facebook Maiden on the all-weather tonight.

REIGNING champion Pat Smullen completed a double on Flic Flac and She’s My Dandy to reduce Johnny Murtagh’s lead in the title-race to just three with only four meetings remaining before the season ends two weeks from tomorrow.

THE Aidan O’Brien-trained Wading proved the star of last night’s action in Dundalk, the Montjeu filly powering to an impressive four-and-a-half lengths win in the Irish Stallion Farms 2-Y-0 Fillies Maiden.

IRISH racing was given a major boost yesterday with the announcement by Horse Racing Ireland that meetings will be held throughout the winter months at Dundalk.

DERMOT WELD’S Danziger is fancied to lead her rivals a merry dance, from a favourable draw, in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Median Auction Maiden at Dundalk this afternoon.

NIALL ‘Slippers’ Madden, out with a head injury since March, made a successful return to action when partnering Salesin to a hard-earned, all-the-way victory in the Black Point Handicap Hurdle at Wexford last night.

COOLMORE sire Dylan Thomas made an immediate impact with his first runner, Snowflake Dancer, which prevailed in a blanket finish to the opening two-year-old maiden at Dundalk last night, and then survived a Stewards Enquiry.

MICHAEL HALFORD’S Barrow Island gets the nap in the Dundalk Stadium On Facebook Maiden at the first meeting of the new season at the Co Louth track tonight.

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JOHNNY MURTAGH and David Wachman shared a two-year-old double at Dundalk last night, highlighted by the victory of Winning Flag in the featured Star Appeal Stakes, a listed event over seven furlongs.

THE second division of the Dundalk Stadium On Facebook Handicap was declared void as confusion reigned at Dundalk yesterday.hor

There will be many star trackers in action at Tralee tomorrow night.

A SINGLE winner for reigning champion Pat Smullen at Dundalk last night, leaves Johnny Murtagh with a 93-88 lead in the title-race entering the final meeting of the 2009 season at Dundalk tonight, when champion elect Murtagh must sit out the action due to a one-day suspension.

Dundalk have announced a new 30,000 Breeders Cup Trial Stakes in an attempt to cater for Irish horses aimed at the showpiece meeting.

CHEYENNE Star rounded off a tremendous season when, enterprisingly ridden by Seamus Heffernan, she scored a facile win in the listed Cooley Fillies Stakes at Dundalk last night.