A round-up of today's other news in brief

Manu Tuilagi replaced by Smith

RUGBY:Matt Smith will replace suspended Leicester centre Manu Tuilagi in today's English Premiership final against Saracens at Twickenham (3.0pm).

Tuilagi is serving a five-week ban imposed after he was cited for punching Northampton’s England wing Chris Ashton during Tigers’ play-off victory over Saints a fortnight ago.

The only Leicester changes from that game see Smith moved to outside centre, with Horacio Agulla filling Smith’s normal wing slot.

England prop Dan Cole and English Rugby Players’ Association players’ player of the year Thomas Waldrom both have to be content with places on the bench.

Fox-Pitt leads strong British showing

EQUESTRIAN SPORT: British riders are leading in four of the five open classes at the Tattersalls international horse trials with William Fox-Pitt holding a four point advantage in the highest graded competition, The Irish Field CCI***, writes Margie McLoone.

Riding the Lando gelding Oslo, Fox-Pitt is on a score of 41.2 penalties with his compatriot Ruth Edge on 45.2 with Applejack II. The best-placed Irish rider is Armagh’s Jayne Doherty who achieved a score of 52.1 with The Only One.

Fox-Pitt is currently second in the Rookery Park CCI** with the Irish-bred Bay My Hero on 41.4 penalties with the lead being held by Britain’s Jay Halim and Adagio III on 40.5. In the under-25 class New Zealand’s Jesse Campbell tops the leaderboard on 46.7 with Kaapachino.

The action continues today at the Co Meath venue with the cross-country phase which gets underway at 8.30am.

Contador eases off to give Tiralonga first career win

CYCLING: Paolo Tiralongo of Italy took his first career victory after being gifted Stage 19 of the Giro dItalia by race leader Alberto Contador yesterday.

Tiralongo broke away 5.5 kilometres from the summit finish at Macugnaga but Contador, a former team-mate, counter-attacked and reached the Astana rider 500 metres from the line. Despite clearly being stronger, Contador then stayed behind Tiralongo, who at the age of 33 claimed his first win since turning professional in 2000. Vincenzo Nibali of Italy finished third, three seconds back.

Ireland’s Philip Deignan came home over 20 minutes behind the winners and is now in 52nd position.

Contador’s lead over second-placed Michele Scarponi now stands at over five minutes. DETAILS IN SPORTS ROUND-UP