On an afternoon that saw the committee doing extremely well to run off their nine-race card with ground conditions worsening as the programme neared a conclusion, last season’s champion mare The ...

THE Blarney Rose, trained at Lombardstown by Eugene O'sullivan and given a splendid confident drive by 18-year old Brendan Crowley from Blarney, was an impressive 10-length winner of the mares winners ...

Aghada stand in their way of a semifinal spot, against the winners of Mallow and St Catherines.Blarney supporters have happy memories of when the sides last clashed in the championship five years ago.

Rubi Ball, the winner of 16 races in his native France, made a less than auspicious start in this country when going under by a head to Foildubh in the Rock Of Cashel Hurdle at Thurles yesterday.