IT was a quiet Irish racing week just gone, Sunday and Monday blank days after a busy period, with the pick of the races being group and listed standard at Dundalk and the Curragh on Friday and Saturday respectively.

Pipsy gave Ger Lyons a third individual winner of a blacktype race in 2023, following on from Zarinsk and Power Under Me, when landing the Legacy Stakes on the all-weather, though the form is questionable, with the blinkered Alabama not looking entirely straightforward as he hung left in the straight.