Under the Rules of Racing the winning jockey can return to scales and fail to draw the weight by up to 1lb and still keep the race. Any more than that though brings automatic disqualification no matter how wide the margin of victory.

It was this piece of turf legislation that caught out Ms M Dowdall Blake's Tramore winner Squaw Winter who weighed in 2 1/2lb light after defeating Janiste by a snug two lengths.

Squaw Winter reappears in the Dolphin Crossmolina Flat Race st Ballinrobe this evening and could atone for his owner who trains privately at the Manhar Lodge Stud outside Newbridge in Co Kildare.

Fidalus had encountered no similar problem after taking a handicap hurdle earlier in the evening at that same meeting. His owner collected a Jar Of Downes No 9 Whiskey then and now looks set to extend his winning "pub crawl" in the Mayo Vintners Handicap Hurdle.

Golden Rule stumbled at the start of his Roscommon run and still managed to finish third to the smart Khatani. He has Cavallina and Absalla to beat in the Ballinrobe Maiden.

Tasbok wore blinkers when he ran his best two-year-old race but even without them he may still be able to get his head in front in the Lough Mask Handicap.

The Turf Club yesterday further rejected any suggestions by the Irish Racehorse Trainers' Association that it did not discharge it responsibilities in a correct manner with regard to the recent meetings in Dundalk, Sligo and Gowran Park.

In a statement from the Turf Club yesterday it was stated that "it is not within the remit of The Turf Club to organise the racemeetings but rather to ensure that such meetings are run in a fitting manner that ensures that the interests of owners, trainers, jockeys, horses and the race-going public are properly met."

Charles O'Brien is set to run Campo Catino in the Budweiser Irish Derby at the Curragh on Sunday week.