RACING: Cork stages an all jumping meeting tomorrow whereas the competing Fairyhouse card is exclusively given over to flat racing, an arrangement that would bamboozle old stagers for whom Fairyhouse was one of the greatest of all steeplechase courses in the country.

Rubbing in the transformation is the fact that the top Sunday feature is the Kilsaran Concrete Ballysaran Stakes a Listed race. Foreign Affairs is the Sir Mark Prescott challenger and he has strong claims but there is a real possibility of Arundel having bridged the gap since losing the Curragh Cup to Maharib two months ago.

This distance then and now was one mile six furlongs and this approximates to the St Leger Classic distance in England, Ireland and France.

At York this week Aidan O'Brien laid down his Doncaster marker with a one-two in the Great Voltigeur Stakes and he will welcome the appearance of more staying three-year-olds with a view to supplementing his Classic singleton this year with Yesterday in the Irish 1,000 Guineas.

Dabousiya was short-headed by Snippets on her last racecourse appearance at the back end of last year and Snippets has upheld that form well enough to mark Dabousiya as a likely John Oxx winner in the Arctic Spas Ireland Race.

JP's brother Kevin McManus sponsors the Cork feature chase and if Golden Row can reproduce his Festival form from Galway, then there will be nothing to threaten him.