🥇| PERFORMANCE OF THE DAY SHADER (13/8) confirms his debut promise by absolutely bolting up in a novice stakes this afternoon at Southwell. A horse who looks to have a very promising future, not even Rab Havlin could get him beat!

🐎 | Irish Champion Rewind 🗓️ 2009,📍Leopardstown Mick Kinane, cool as you like, weaves around the Ballydoyle Battalion before cruising clear to the land the 2009 Irish Champion Stakes on SEA THE STARS. 2000 Guineas✅ Derby✅ Coral-Eclipse✅ Juddmonte✅ Irish Champion✅ Arc✅

🐎 | ASCOT An intriguing lineup goes to post for the 2:25 maiden at Ascot. ISAMBARD BRUNEL, son of JUSTIFY, heads the market for Aidan O’Brien & Ryan Moore. He’s closely followed by FIFTH COLUMN for the Gosdens who was a big eyecatcher on debut having been heavily backed for

🐎 | ASCOT The promising MEHMAS colt DIEGO VENTURA (15:35 jolly) has been snapped up by Wathnan Racing following his debut win at Naas for Gavin Cromwell. That form has been franked with the 2nd, 4th, 5th & 7th all winning since & he should take a fair amount of beating today

🥇| PERFORMANCE OF THE DAY Mickael Barzalona embarrassing his jockey counterparts in the Group 1 Prix du Moulin aboard TRIBALIST. CHARYN, given far too much to do, was the moral winner, however thankfully we don’t pay out on ‘moral winners’.

⚽️ IRE v GRE It’s all square at the break at the Aviva between Ireland & Greece. The Irish are edging the XG battle at 0.07 to the Greeks 0.06. The Greeks edge the ‘shots on target’ battle at the break however with just 1. Riveting stuff. Will there be any goals? #IREGRE

⛳️ | IRISH OPEN The Irish Open gets underway tomorrow at one of the best golf courses in the world in Royal County Down. Rory McIlroy heads the line up but he’s struggled under the pressure in recent times. Shane Lowry bids to repeat the feat of his 2009 victory as an amateur,

🐎 | MAY HILL STAKES Charlie Appleby’s promising unbeaten filly DESERT FLOWER looks to make it 3/3 on the track as she steps up in grade today for the May Hill Stakes G2 at Newmarket. She beat the opposing FLIGHT easily on debut before following up impressively under a penalty

⛳️ Is it a travesty that the Irish Open isn’t played before the Scottish & British Open? #IrishOpen

🌸🥇DESERT FLOWER is a proper one! She comfortably lands the Group 2 May Hill Stakes under William Buick for the Boys in Blue. Plenty more left in the tank you’d say!

🐎 Team tactics ahead of the Champion Stakes at Leopardstown.

🏆 ECONOMICS game as anything under Tom Marquand, the duo land the Irish Champion Stakes for William Haggas. Did AUGUSTE RODIN throw in the towel?

Thanks very much to Fitzwilliam Sports (Fitzwilliam Sports) and Paul Byrne for a very kind donation to the Curragh To Curragh Charity cycle in aid of CancerTrialsIreland 🌈 Much appreciated. So many kind people in racing. 👏👏👏

🥇CALL ME CAPTAIN causes an upset in the night-cap at Naas for Natalia Lupini and Dylan Browne McMonagle. 🐽 GALVESTON, the 2,000,000 guineas Frankel colt, was out the back of the telly in last. Has there ever been anything worse in value?

📉 STEAMER ALERT: We’ve cut CITY OF TROY into 10/11 (from 3/1) for the Breeders Cup Classic after his dazzling display in the sand at Southwell this afternoon. 🇺🇸 🏆

Not So Sleepy goes into retirement and all of a sudden Constitution Hill is BACK… Coincidence?

🤔 Nicky Henderson has come out swinging RE CONSTITUTION HILL and his apparent well being. Nagging concerns still linger however given his interrupted campaign last season. How many times will we see the Seven Barrow’s superstar this season?

🏆 | PERFORMANCE OF THE DAY FLOORING PORTER galloping them into submission in the Kerry National under Keith Donoghue for Gavin Cromwell. €120,000 to the winner, not a bad pot of a Wednesday afternoon in September!