Clonmel’s six-race hurdle card proved a profitable one for favourite backers, with odds-on chances obliging in the first three races, but the feature event, the www.grahamnorris.com Memorial Handicap Hurdle, went to one of the outsiders, Time For Mabel.

Superstar filly Alpha Centauri is amongst the four nominees for the Horse of the Year, one of the prestigious awards to be presented at the annual HRI event, which will take place December 4.

There were some fine displays yesterday at Mallow, and Mary Salome, trained by Madeleine Tylicki and part-owned by her brother, former jockey Freddie, who was left paralysed from the waist down in a riding accident at Kempton in 2016, led the way with her winning performance in the Foran Equine Irish EBF Auction Fillies’ Maiden which got proceedings underway.

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MUNSTER coach Tony McGahan handed the captain’s armband to seasoned international back-rower Denis Leamy, but named an experimental side to face Llanelli Scarlets in tonight’s Magners League clash in Wales.

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ROSS HICKEY, who won a national senior title at lightweight back in 2008, launched his campaign at light-welter at last night’s national elite championships at the National Stadium with victory over Crumlin’s Stephen Carroll.

GLENN RYAN didn’t have a happy return to long-time stomping ground St Conleth’s Park as Kildare subjected his Longford side to a double-score beating in the O’Byrne Cup.

THE future of Fermanagh football boss John O’Neill is believed to be under threat after reports several players have quit the panel in protest at his management.

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WITH all the wailing about the hurling league and its crowds in recent weeks, it brought to mind a dressing room scene from the late 90s.

ELEVEN Fermanagh footballers have slammed their county board for the handling of the impasse between the senior squad and manager John O’Neill.

THE Fermanagh County Board’s management committee meet for a second time in three days tonight as the GAA and GPA hope their intervention can help resolve the impasse involving 10 footballers.

Richard Hannon’s Kool Kompany, so disappointing at Royal Ascot in the Coventry, streaked away with the Group 2 Gain Railway Stakes at the Curragh on Saturday.

Ger Lyons and Colin Keane have developed into a cracking combination and can provide us with a winning nap in the shape of Cape Wolfe in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Median Auction Maiden at Fairyhouse tonight.

Dermot Weld and Pat Smullen continued their terrific season when Edelmira landed the Group 3 Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Give Thanks Stakes at Cork last night.

On a night when Michael Halford and Shane Foley continued in top form with a 64/1 treble, Plus Ca Change looked a potential stakes-class performer when justifying 5/6 favouritism in the opening Irish Stallion farms 2-Y-0 Fillies Maiden in Dundalk.

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