Clare produced a rousing finish to beat Kildare in a high-scoring Allianz Football League Division 3 final at Croke Park.

Kildare went without a score for 28 minutes and not even a late brace of points could save them.

The big race of the day, the Guinness Handicap, is off at 6.50pm.

The big race of the day, the Guinness Galway Hurdle Handicap, is off at 4.45pm.

BY their own admission, Cork Constitution got out of jail and sneaked through to the AIB League final against old rivals Garryowen at Musgrave Park next Saturday.

HARDLY the scoreline you would expect from two of the AIL’s Division One high-flyers, but there were extenuating circumstances in this top-four clash on Saturday afternoon last on the back pitch at Thomond Park.

JOHN O’MAHONY is in the process of putting the final touches to his Mayo management team, with former Olympic coach Jim Kilty likely to be involved.

THE strength in depth of Irish rugby will be put to the test at Thomond Park tonight (7.30) when Michael Bradley’s Ireland A squad go into action against Australia A.

TOM HOGAN'S Kalderon has promised to deliver a decent pot for a while and he did it at the conclusion of the Tralee Festival yesterday when putting up a game display in the Listed Ruby Stakes.

If Cork complete the fabled three-in-a-row on Sunday, they will have achieved it with only 17 starters this season. But, as Diarmuid O’Flynn discovered, when you have exceptional players, they can take you a long way.

CONTROVERSY raged at Fairyhouse last evening when the on-course bookmakers - over 20 of them - refused to bet on the first race.

PAUL NOLAN’S Cuan Na Grai can provide the solution to the Tommy James Plant Hire and Civil Engineering Ltd Novice Hurdle at Wexford this evening.

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FERNELEY, “the best horse I’ve ever trained,” according to his trainer, Frank Ennis, showed all the right qualities to win the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Race at Tipperary last night.

BRAZILIAN BRIDE stamped her class on the Group 3 Swordallstown Stud Sprint Stakes at Naas yesterday.

VETERAN Media Puzzle registered his first win since the 2002 Melbourne Cup when landing the listed Seamus McGrath Memorial Saval Beg Stakes at Leopardstown last night.

WHEN Pat Kelly emerges from the Hogan Stand tunnel on Monday, it will be the first time he has felt the HQ turf under his studs since September 2004 when his first All-Ireland experience was spoiled by Colm Cooper.

KERRY’S bid to end Cork’s dominance of the Munster U21 football championship begins this afternoon in Tralee.

HUMAN remains recovered in a woodland search by gardaí in Co Laois yesterday were thought to be those of an Englishman who has been missing since last April.

COLM ‘The Gooch’ Cooper scored his greatest goal yesterday when he made a present of his football boots to a nine-year-old fan in Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children in Dublin.