COLDPLAY flopped at the Brits last night, walking away empty handed despite being nominated for four awards.

SEVERE winds spoiled Pádraig Harrington’s early round efforts on day one of the Shell Houston Open in Texas last night.

NIALL MADDEN emerged from yesterday’s Grade 2 MacLochlainn Road Markings Ltd Kinloch Brae Chase with great credit, guiding Cailin Alainn to a clever success.

INTIMATE SECRET is the nap choice in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Maiden at Limerick this afternoon.

WELL, the moment of truth has finally arrived and at Down Royal today we will find out if Kauto Star is back to his best.

COLDPLAY and Duffy led the way at the Brit Awards nominations with four nods apiece.

ERIC McNAMARA produced a brilliant training performance to win back-to-back Guinness Kerry Nationals with Ponmeoath at a packed Listowel yesterday.

IN normal circumstances, Sizing Europe would be a particularly confident choice to land the Grade 1 Golf Centre December Festival Hurdle at Leopardstown this afternoon.

NOLAND gets the nap to beat War Of Attrition in the re-scheduled John Durkan Memorial Chase at Punchestown this afternoon.

MEATH boss Eamon Barry must now surely hate the sight of a Wexford jersey.

Rory McIlroy has been drawn in the final group for Thursday's opening round of the Masters as he seeks the victory he needs to complete the career grand slam.

Shane Lowry promised to give himself a slap in the face when his mind inevitably turns to celebrating a Masters win on Sunday evening.

A heavy metal music festival in Germany has banned rucksacks and bags from the main grounds this year for security reasons, organisers said.

Heavy metal band Iron Maiden's Ed Force One plane has been damaged in an airport crash which left two people injured.

WEXFORD jockey Tom O’Brien set a new record for the most wins in a season for a conditional jockey in Britain with a 383-1 treble aboard Lincoln’s Inn, Xila Fontenailles and Good Book at Warwick yesterday.

FREDS BENEFIT gets the nap to land the most interesting contest on the programme at Limerick this afternoon, the www.hacketts.ie Novice Hurdle.

IN Monday's Racing Post David Ashforth, who is on a tour of the racecourses of Britain and Ireland, gave what could be best described as a scathing account of Tralee last week.

DERMOT WELD, fresh from another profitable Galway, where he had seven winners, was on the mark at Cork yesterday when Reform Act turned in a game display to land the €45,000 plus to the winner Listed Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Give Thanks Stakes.

CARRAIG Na Gcapaill should complete a hurdling hat-trick in the Midland Breeders Mares Hurdle at Kilbeggan this evening.

AN amazing fourth consecutive Group One inside the space of eight weeks went the way of Peeping Fawn as Aidan O’Brien’s iron lady overpowered her rivals in the Darley Yorkshire Oaks at York yesterday.