HORSE RACING: John Murtagh will try for a second career success in the Irish Champion Stakes aboard the English outsider Common World.
It's six years since Murtagh picked up the Leopardstown prize on the John Oxx-trained Timarida.
She was a 3 to 1 winner but Common World's chance appears to have been dismissed, with Paddy Power making the Gerard Butler colt a 25 to 1 shot for Saturday.
It will be a second start in Ireland this year for Common World, who was a neck runner-up to Century City in the Group Two Goffs International Stakes at the Curragh in mid-July.
The ante-post market continues to be dominated by Hawk Wing, who is as short as 2 to 5 favourite with some firms.
He also features among the 15 entries for Sunday's Prix du Moulin but Rock Of Gibraltar remains the likely Ballydoyle number one for Longchamp.
Aidan O'Brien has eight of the 15 left in the mile contest but most are precautionary entries. Banks Hill appears the pick of the home defence.
O'Brien has also paid out €7,000 to supplement his Coronation Stakes winner, Sophisticat, into Saturday's main support race, the Matron Stakes.
However, the strength among his sprinting ranks has been reduced now that Ishiguru has been retired to stud.
