Dual Derby-winner Camelot produced a workmanlike display to beat stable-companion and pacemaker Triumphant on his seasonal debut in the Group 3 High Chaparral Mooresbridge Stakes at the Curragh yesterday.

Always a force at the track, Michael Halford completed a double with favourites Rummaging and Won Diamond in Dundalk last night.

The remarkable Inis Meain, a tremendous success story over the last few months for Denis Hogan, did it again at Listowel yesterday when landing the featured Guinness Handicap.

What’s on offer at Bellewstown this evening can be best described as grim, with five horrible handicaps and a claiming maiden forming the bulk of an eight-contest programme.

THE high-class St Nicholas Abbey is difficult to oppose in the Group 3 High Chaparral EBF Mooresbridge Stakes at the Curragh this afternoon.

IT was business as usual at Galway last night, as Dermot Weld’s Stunning View landed the valuable Topaz Mile EBF Handicap, one of three winners for the Rosewell House maestro.

SETA regained winning ways and built the foundations for a return to much better company with victory under Kieren Fallon in the ladbrokes.com Charnwood Forest Fillies’ Conditions Stakes at Leicester yesterday.

SEPTIMUS made a victorious comeback with a game display in the High Chaparral EBF Mooresbridge Stakes at the Curragh yesterday.

A MOUTH-WATERING rematch between Ouija Board and Alexander Goldrun at Leopardstown next month remains a distinct possibility.

A mouth-watering rematch between Ouija Board and Alexander Goldrun at Leopardstown next month remains a distinct possibility.

EUROPEAN horses dominated the finish of the Breeders’ Cup Turf with a clean sweep of the places spearheaded by Shirocco at Belmont Park in New York on Saturday night.

Vodafone Derby winner Motivator will be retired to stud after being ruled out of the Breeders’ Cup Turf through injury.

High-class Irish filly Alexander Goldrun will be out to redeem her reputation in the Emirates Airline Champion Stakes at Newmarket tomorrow.

Dubawi, Godolphin’s brilliant winner of the Irish 2000 Guineas and Prix Jacques le Marois, has been retired after suffering an injury to a hind ligament.

Mick Kinane is hoping St Leger hero Scorpion can sting Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe favourite Hurricane Run when the pair clash at Longchamp on Sunday.

MICK KINANE is hoping St Leger hero Scorpion can sting Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe favourite Hurricane Run at Longchamp tomorrow.

Connections of Motivator have reported the Vodafone Derby hero to be in sparkling form ahead of Sunday’s Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.

Azamour will not run in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe after failing to recover from a tweaked back muscle.

Vodafone Derby winner Motivator will be syndicated to stand at Queen Elizabeth II’s Royal Stud at Sandringham when retiring at the end of the season.

Kieren Fallon believes next month’s Emirates Airline Champion Stakes at Newmarket would be an ideal race for Oratorio following the colt’s brilliant success at Leopardstown.

Motivator is set for a few days on the easy list before beginning his build up to next month’s Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp.

DERMOT WELD will only run Grey Swallow in the Baileys Irish Champion Stakes if there is significant rainfall ahead of the Group One contest at Leopardstown tomorrow.

Motivator’s chances of running in the Baileys Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown have increased with the news rain is forecast towards the end of the week.

MOTIVATOR is “highly unlikely” to run in Saturday’s Baileys Irish Champion Stakes if the ground remains firm at Leopardstown.

Derby hero Motivator will have his next start in the Baileys Irish Champion Stakes, setting up a fascinating clash with brilliant King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes winner Azamour.

Saturday’s potentially explosive encounter between Motivator and Shamardal in the Coral-Eclipse Stakes at Sandown is set to go ahead after both were declared for the race today.

Ante-post favourite Motivator heads a field of 14 set to go to post for Saturday’s Vodafone Derby at Epsom.

Looking for his third successive Vodafone Derby winner, Kieren Fallon moved a step closer to naming his choice for the Epsom showpiece on Monday.

Kieren Fallon is set to decide on his Vodafone Derby mount after Aidan O’Brien’s big-race hopes complete their preparations early next week.

Kieren Fallon is set to decide on his Vodafone Derby mount after Aidan O’Brien’s big-race hopes complete their preparations early next week.

GODOLPHIN’S racing manager Simon Crisford has confirmed Saturday’s Boylesports Irish 2000 Guineas winner Dubawi a definite runner in the Vodafone Derby on June 4.

Godolphin’s racing manager Simon Crisford has confirmed yesterday’s Boylesports Irish 2000 Guineas winner Dubawi a definite runner in the Vodafone Derby on June 4.

Aidan O’Brien confirmed yesterday that UltimatePoker.com 2000 Guineas winner Footstepsinthesand will not take his chance in the Boylesports-sponsored equivalent at the Curragh on Saturday.

Aidan O’Brien confirmed this evening that UltimatePoker.com 2000 Guineas winner Footstepsinthesand will not take his chance in the Boylesports-sponsored equivalent at the Curragh on Saturday.

CONNECTIONS report hot favourite Dubawi to be in “good form” ahead of tomorrow's UltimatePoker.com 2000 Guineas at Newmarket.

KIEREN FALLON is loving life at Ballydoyle. He has left the daily grind of driving up and down the motorways of Britain for the idyllic surroundings of Tipperary and, already, seems the better for it.

Aidan O’Brien is hoping either Footstepsinthesand or Oratorio can provide him with a third success in Saturday’s UltimatePoker.com 2000 Guineas.

MOTIVATOR is to bypass the UltimatePoker.com 2000 Guineas and will now start his three-year-old career in the totesport Dante Stakes at York on May 12.

Jamie Spencer has resigned from his position as stable jockey to Aidan O’Brien in Ireland.

Jamie Spencer has refused to comment on intense speculation in Ireland that his job as stable jockey to the powerful Aidan O’Brien yard may be about to end.

AIDAN O’BRIEN is hoping that his late-season revival in form can be carried across the Atlantic when he saddles five runners in Saturday’s Breeders’ Cup meeting at Lone Star Park.