Officers from Revenue's Customs Service assisted by an Garda Síochána have uncovered a sophisticated fuel laundering plant in a commercial premises in Portlaw, Co. Waterford.

Young trainer Pat O’Connor from Tarbert, Co. Kerry is having a great season and will be represented in the Champion Stakes at the National Meeting in Clonmel in February by Liam Nolan’s (Moyvane) Catrionas Joy, the overnight favourite, who collected his second Cup of the season at the Dungarvan meeting (at Cappoquin) yesterday when he won the Deise Cup.

LEGENDARY Kerry trainer Pa Fitzgerald recorded his second J.P. McManus Irish Cup win in-a-row, and his sixth in all, when last season’s Boylesport Derby runner-up, Sandy Sea, landed the €80,000 winning prize for well- known owner Patsy Byrne (Duagh and London) at a well attended and highly successful Patrickswell meeting yesterday.

THE flying Droopys Caesar (Hilltown-Fiery Lucy) has been temporarily grounded for a spell at stud in the Dunphy kennels in Portlaw, Co. Waterford.