TIMMY HYDE’S Like A Duke is heading for the sales ring, following his easy victory in the All Ireland Corporate Games Maiden Hurdle at Limerick yesterday.

DAVY RUSSELL continued his relentless pursuit of a first jockey’s title when guiding well-backed Kingsmaster to a smooth successs in the Waterford and Tramore Supporters’ Club Maiden Hurdle at the final stage of the Tramore Festival yesterday.

DAVY RUSSELL continued his relentless pursuit of a first jockey’s title when guiding well-backed Kingsmaster to a smooth successs in the Waterford and Tramore Supporters’ Club Maiden Hurdle at the final stage of the Tramore Festival yesterday.

Everton boss David Moyes believes Saturday’s 2-0 defeat to American outfit Real Salt Lake will act as a wake-up call ahead of the new Barclays Premier League season.

GREEN MILE has clearly got first run on the handicapper and is difficult to oppose in the ACC Bank Hurdle at Kilbeggan tonight.

JOHN MURPHY, enjoying a break in Italy, missed seeing his Royal Rhythm easily beat hot-pot Salt Lake in the ladbrokes.com Maiden Hurdle at Limerick yesterday.

THAT great old warrior Mustameet can show his rivals a clean pair of heels in the Group 3 High Chaparral EBF Mooresbidge Stakes at the Curragh this afternoon.

KATIE WALSH enjoyed her first success over flights when guiding Parrot Cay, trained by her father, Ted, to win the Cashel Maiden Hurdle in very testing conditions at Thurles yesterday.

BALLYAGRAN is fancied to gallop and jump a couple of useful rivals silly in the Kilbegnet EBF Novice Chase at Roscommon this afternoon.

RUBY WALSH became the first jockey in history to ride the winner of the Guinness Kerry National three years in-a-row when guiding Bothar Na to a smooth success in the traditional feature of the Listowel Festival yesterday.

SHANE DONOHOE heaped praise on fellow trainer, Charlie Swan, after his Mill House Girl had slammed odds-on Telemachus in the Sean Barrett Bloodstock Insurance Ltd. Novice Hurdle at Tipperary last night.

A former air traffic controller with a British firm will face possible charges in Colorado after being suspected of planting homemade bombs outside five homes.

REIGNING Olympic women’s downhill champion Carole Montillet-Carles was among three racers taken to hospital as a series of spectacular crashes marred the second day of official training.

Kidnapped teenager Elizabeth Smart, trapped in the hills above her anguished family’s home for the first two months of her disappearance, may have been kept from escaping or crying out for help by the growing influence of her captors, police said.

British skier Alain Baxter is to appeal against the International Olympic Committee’s decision to strip him of an Olympic bronze medal, the skier confirmed today.

Chinese short track speed skater Yang Yang (A) warmed-up for the Winter Olympics by breaking her own world record in the 1000m.

Sting will share the same stage with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir at the opening ceremony of the Salt Lake City Olympics.

Security concerns have swiftly followed the bribery scandal and scarred the build-up to next month’s 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

An Amtrak train crashed into a freight train, derailed and caught fire today, but the passengers escaped without serious injury, officials said.

Polygamist Tom Green broke down on the witness stand as he described the hardships his family underwent as they pursued their unconventional lifestyle.