The Irishman's closing 66 at Riviera piled the pressure on American Jacob Bridgeman and a huge closing putt increased it further but the 26-year-old clung on for a maiden tour win

Nicky Henderson's favourite came to grief yet again in Newcastle as The New Lion also fell to leave Golden Ace to win at 22-1

On the day's final stage, the pendulum swung back to Fourmaux when Sesks collected a puncture, nursing his Ford Puma over the finish line.

A close fifth in the Triumph Hurdle when last seen, the lightly raced sort was sent off a 1-5 chance to put this first win on her card

Seamus Heffernan was another jockey to record a brace at the Louth venue

Battling through the slippery conditions of the opening loop of three stages near Rathcormac, Michael Boyle and Desi Henry then battled with each other when the conditions dried out and the speeds increased.

On top of the routine run-ins and finals, there’s the increasingly regular annual league phase involvement in the Conference League.

Looking ahead to Irish Champions Festival, Condon reported Queen Of Thunder in fine fettle in advance of her run in the Group 1 Coolmore America Justify Matron Stakes.

Gordon Elliott’s four-year-old gelding was a winner on a bumper debut in February and placed in a winners’ race and then a listed race before making a winning start over hurdles in a maiden in Cork

Sent off favourite on debut — though she had to settle for third place behind the smart Queen Of Hawaii — it was clear she was highly thought of in a stable doing well with its juveniles

Luke Donald’s gathering of 10 of his 12-player team on the entry list offers an early opportunity for some serious team bonding.

Four birdies over his final six holes catapulted McIlroy onto the first page of the leaderboard to the delight of the huge galleries

How the stadium was paid for at times is, to this day, a mystery, but it was, completed and opened as Everton’s third home, our third stadium built in the city of Liverpool

The history of workwear has gone through many evolutions. Years ago it was shirt and tie, a Sweet Afton clamped in the jaw, and stoic silence. Then came overalls, old Italia 90 hoodies, and Wranglers jeans

“She’s done it the hard way, being drawn wide and caught wide, and it was a good performance,” said trainer Shane Lyons.

What is a concern is the fact that head coach Farrell picked what looked like his strongest starting line-up for the match-up with Stephen Larkham’s Super Rugby semi-finalists. 

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Victory completed a double for the winning owner as Birdie Or Bust, trained by Henry de Bromhead and ridden by Mark Walsh, earlier made all in the mares’ beginners’ chase named in memory of the late, great Donie Sheahan.

The remarkable 12-year-old, sent off at 22-1, notched his 12th career success with a gutsy display