City Of Troy could be seen at Saratoga this year, if everything goes as hoped with the red-hot Classic favourite.
Novice chaser Nick Rockett is likely to head trainer Willie Mullins' Boylesports Irish Grand National challenge at Fairyhouse on Easter Monday, with the weights for the €500,000 race being released today.
Naas' first flat fixture of the year scheduled for Sunday will be run without sprint races, which have been cancelled due to parts of the sprint course being unfit for racing.
Trainer Paddy Twomey began the flat season with a Curragh winner on opening day yesterday and has issued an update on his principal runners, including last year's Beresford Stakes winner Deepone.
Chazzesmee could attempt an audacious Lincoln double after landing the Irish version today in the Curragh.
Julie Harrington, chief executive of the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) issued a statement in the aftermath of Cheltenham that amounted to a rallying cry to her industry to take urgent steps to address the imbalance of Irish trainers winning 12 of the 14 Grade One races at the Festival.
Here are some extracts from what Harrington said: “I have no doubt that the men and women who train horses here in Britain are more than a match for their Irish counterparts. However, they need the ammunition and at present the balance of power and the best horses are going to our colleagues in Ireland, and in particular one yard.
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I'm from Wexford Town and I didn't have anything to do with horses or the horse industry initially - mum was a matron in Wexford General Hospital and dad was an accountant in a few different firms.
As a kid in primary school I met John Berry and became very friendly with him. We used to go up to his house after school and I got a bit of a love for the ponies up there. I rode ponies with him and basically that is where it all started from. I didn't know much about the horse industry but, from then, I wanted to be a jockey. Why? I don't know as there wasn't much of it on television and at that time I don't think I was even going up to the racecourse in Wexford. Something was in the head and that was it!
- Lough Leane will no doubt be popular after bringing up the hat-trick over a mile at Newcastle last week, but a 5lb penalty demands more of David Simcock's gelding. With that in mind, it may pay to side with REVERBERATION, who went agonisingly close to making all over a mile at Chelmsford last time and could go one better nudged up just 1lb. Plumette can often be a hostage to fortune under her usual waiting tactics, but if the cards fall right, she is weighted to strike.