The once-raced Plus Ca Change can land the opening Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Fillies Maiden at Dundalk tonight.

Barn-storming opportunities at North Cork thatched homestead, complete with tennis court and barn workshop, says Tommy Barker.

Kilkenny’s Michael Fennelly returns at centre-forward for tomorrow’s All-Ireland semi-final clash against Limerick.

Trainer Paul Deegan has warned Sruthan is likely to improve for the run as he makes his first appearance since May in the Invesco Pension Consultants Desmond Stakes at Leopardstown tonight.

Old scores were never fully settled because off the field the players rarely met socially.

A factory in Kinsale has proved to be the perfect location to put on the Irish premiere of a typically energetic play by Enda Walsh, writes Alan O’Riordan

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Tom Mullins and Paul Townend, who teamed up to win with Elsie at Roscommon on Tuesday, again join forces at Cork tonight with Grand Partner and the six-year-old is fancied to land the nap in the Great Value Social Package Maiden Hurdle.

Willie Mullins made it a fourth feature race success in five days at the 2018 Galway Festival and the theme of it not being the leading market fancy from the yard continued as Nessun Dorma caused an upset in the Guinness Handicap in the hands of Billy Lee.

Willie Mullins has well and truly made the Galway festival his own.

There were two winners for Eric McNamara and three for Willie Mullins, but Midleton jockey Paul Townend stole the show with a four-timer on the opening day of the 2018 Harvest Festival in Listowel.

Seven years ago three-time All-Ireland winner David Hickey, then a Dublin selector, told friends his county would become the first team to complete the illustrious five in a row. Undaunted by the defeats to Mayo and Donegal in 2012 and 2014 respectively, he repeated those claims as one of their team doctors two years ago. Now as a supporter, his joy is unbridled seeing the team on the cusp of that achievement.

Dermot Weld and Declan McDonogh led the way with a double on the opening day of Killarney August meeting, Aidan O’Brien pitched in with a brilliant winner of the feature, Jessica Harrington was on the mark with a progressive colt, and John Murphy continued his fine run at this track with another winner.

On the final day of the August festival in Tramore, trainer Willie Mullins recorded a double, while championship rival Gordon Elliott took the feature, the McCarthy’s Irish Bar Lexington Handicap Chase with the well-treated Mill Quest.

Snow Falcon more than made amends for his luckless effort in the Galway Plate by taking the Guinness Kerry National in front of a crowd of 25,610 at Listowel track.

Aubrey McMahon hit the headlines in 2017 when winning the Connacht Hotel Handicap, the feature on the opening day of the Galway festival, on his father’s Whiskey Sour, and there was a distinct sense of déjà vu yesterday evening as the young rider carried his father Luke’s colours to victory for the second consecutive year, this time aboard Uradel.

By Paul Keane

By Tommy Lyons

After another successful Royal Ascot, jockey Frankie Dettori took time off this week to enjoy the sunshine in Sardinia with his family, but it will be back to business this weekend as the big-race jockey is to be tasked with helping Knight To Behold bounce back from his Epsom disappointment when he contests the Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby this Saturday at The Curragh.

A James Doyle masterclass aboard Sea Of Class ensured the remarkable record of overseas runners in the Darley Irish Oaks continued — and that was the theme for the day, as British-based trainers won all three group races and four in total on Saturday afternoon at the Curragh.