SOME sporting weekend isn’t it? And that’s just the racing, before you even go thinking about the golf or the rugby or the soccer, or the World Rowing Championships in Serbia. (Well done to Siobhán McCrohan yesterday by the way.)

There are Group 1 races on both sides of the Irish Sea this weekend, six of them on this side, two today, four tomorrow, on the most important weekend of flat racing on the Irish calendar, one of them on the far side, the Betfair Sprint Cup at Haydock today, for which Shaquille is a short-priced favourite.