WHEN you watch a lot of racing there aren’t many occasions when the performance of a horse makes you sit up and take particular notice.

Check out today’s tips for races from selected courses.

Expensive purchase Purple Moon duly landed the odds on his hurdling debut at Musselburgh.

Much like that frightful Wizzard chorus, racing fans are surely united in their wish it could be Christmas every day.

MICK MORRIS and Billy Rice once played unavailingly in an Irish Senior Cup final for Limerick Golf Club against Shandon Park.