A walker reading one of my pocket-book West Cork walking guides contacted me to say that, although she had walked a saltmarsh behind Garafeen Strand near Kilbrittain for 10 years, she had never seen the skylarks I mentioned in my book. 

Off the track since winning her maiden in Navan back in April, the Kevin Prendergast-trained Bebhinn proved herself an exciting juvenile when winning the listed Blenheim 2-Y-0 Stakes in Fairyhouse yesterday.

Marshall Jennings can earn a first victory since his switch to Jessica Harrington, by taking the www.thetote.com handicap at Ballinrobe tonight.

Scream Blue Murder, well supported throughout the day, justified 5-4 favouritism for the Father’s Day Racing June 15th Race at Cork last night.