Handy bonus for Johnny Murtagh’s dedicated staff

RACECOURSE bookmaker Anthony Kaminskas, who trades as AK Bets, popped in to Johnny Murtagh’s Fox Covert Stables on the Curragh this week to present the staff with a cheque for €2,500. The Murtagh yard topped the table in the AK Bets Summer Series, which saw points awarded to the top 10 finishers in three races sponsored by ‘AK’ at the Curragh this summer.

Free ticket winners

We received hundreds of entries for last week’s competition offering a pair of tickets to both days of Longines Irish Champions Weekend to 10 lucky readers. Many thanks to Group 1 Flying Five sponsor Al Basti Equiworld for the tickets. Our winners are Conor Sweeney (Portlaoise), Derek Orr (Dublin), Adrian Purcell (Thurles), Paddy Roche (Tyrone), Alan Nicholson (Cork), David Adamson (Belfast), Patrick Monahan (Navan), Damien Cassidy (Kildare), Marian Holmes (Offaly) and Dawn Leadon (Wicklow).