RACING NEWS ROUND-UP:JIM BOLGER is preparing his triple Group One winner Lush Lashes for a return to action at the Curragh on Sunday, but before that the trainer can secure a valuable Listed success for Gile Na Greine in this evening's Tipperary feature.

Fourteen fillies line up for the Fairy Bridge Stakes over an extended seven furlongs, and it looks to provide Gile Na Greine with an ideal winning opportunity.

The daughter of Galileo is, not surprisingly, clear of everything else in the race on ratings, boasting as she does a Classic third in the English 1,000 Guineas and a second to Lillie Langtry in the Coronation Stakes.

Gile Na Greine disappointed since then in the Falmouth, but her best form is much better than any of these and the conditions mean she even gets 5lb from the Athasi winner Lolly For Dolly.

Ten of the 14 are from the Classic generation, and while Lolly For Dolly would relish any ease in the going, Gile Na Greine’s main threat could come from Emulous, who chased home Beethoven in the Desmond Stakes on her last start.

Bolger has confirmed that Lush Lashes will have her first start in over 14 months in Sunday’s Dance Design Stakes at the Curragh. The mare had been covered by Sea The Stars earlier in the year but lost the foal.

Aidan O’Brien will be represented by Ice Empress in the feature tonight, but provides an interesting runner in the concluding mile-and-a-half conditions race.

Flying Cross, a son of Sadler’s Wells and the dual-Oaks heroine Ramruma, hasn’t been seen since breaking his maiden at Navan last October, but, significantly, is one of the six entries O’Brien has left in the Doncaster St Leger.

The champion trainer had Await The Dawn ready to make a winning return at Cork on Sunday, and although Bob Le Beau sets a 97 standard, Flying Cross could be a good bit better than this class.

Johnny Murtagh can also score on Gala Spirit in the opening maiden for the Nunthorpe-winning trainer Eddie Lynam, and is on the newcomer Giant Step for David Wachman in the seven-furlong juvenile maiden instead of the Curragh third Pirateer.

At Bellewstown, Barry Geraghty teams up with Des McDonogh for the ride on Malande in the first handicap hurdle this evening. The six-year-old wouldn’t be winning out of turn after finishing runner-up at Sligo and Ballinrobe on her last two starts over flights.

BARRY OUT WITH FRACTURED PELVIS

SHAY BARRY faces a lengthy spell on the sidelines after fracturing his pelvis in a fall at Killarney last week, writes Brian O’Connor.

Though the jockey was taken to hospital in Tralee after the incident, he was later discharged.

It was only when he went to another hospital in Waterford the following day, complaining of severe abdominal pain, that it was confirmed he had fractured his pelvis.

It had initially taken nearly two hours to stabilise Barry’s condition at Killarney racetrack, where the Turf Club medical officer, Dr Adrian McGoldrick, was concerned about internal bleeding.

“I was very concerned with the severity of the fall,” McGoldrick said yesterday.

“He has a fracture, but we won’t know how long he will be out until an MRI scan.”

Barry’s mount, the former Cheltenham Bumper winner Hairy Molly, was killed in the fall that put the jockey on the injury sidelines.