Bolger looking for knockout punch

Jim Bolger has two shots at interrupting Aidan O’Brien’s monopoly on the Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby as Puncher Clynch and Carraiglawn head for the Curragh on Sunday.

It is quite surprising to note Bolger has collected Ireland’s premier Classic only once in his long and successful career, through St Jovite in 1992, while his former pupil turned rival O’Brien seeks his fifth in succession and eighth in total.