Exciting summer of Flat racing in prospect

TOP trainers Aidan O'Brien, Dermot Weld, Jim Bolger and John Oxx were in Dublin yesterday to outline plans for their leading horses.

They attended a function put on by Horse Racing Ireland, Leopardstown and the Curragh to preview the summer Flat racing programme in Ireland.

In the wake of O'Brien's Newmarket Guineas double, HRI chief executive Brian Kavanagh said: "Following such an extraordinary National Hunt season we hardly dared to dream that our Flat horses would also deliver victories in the top contests at home and abroad.