DESSIE Hughes yesterday landed back-to-back totesport.com Becher Chases as Vic Venturi emulated stablemate Black Apalachi with victory over the Grand National fences at Aintre

KAUTO Star is reported to be in tip-top shape after his thrilling win in the Betfair Chase at Haydock on Saturday.

DOUBLE Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Kauto Star just held on from Imperial Commander in a pulsating renewal of the Betfair Chase at Haydock.

GIVEN HIS endearingly mop-topped combination of jauntiness, natural charisma and respectful politeness that is a credit to his rightfully proud parents, it has never been hard

LEE Westwood simply oozed confidence in the desert yesterday, knowing that he is just one solid round away from a £1.6million jackpot. Rory McIlroy had just made Westwood'

GLASGOW'S Chris Kelly moved up into the top ten during the second round of the European Tour's qualifying school stage two in Spain yesterday.

ROSS FISHER'S promise to "try and go for everything" paid handsome dividends when golf's Dubai World Championship resumed today.

FORMER GB chief Frank Dick tells Richard Bath how he plans some tough love to rescue Scottish athletics

BRITISH Swimming head coach Dennis Pursley has criticised the prospect of dropping the women's 800metre freestyle event from the Olympic programme as early as 2012.

FEW would have imagined that England's most capped one-day cricketer would be a gritty, workmanlike legside shoveller from Durham whose position has perennially been under

SOUTH African all-rounder Jacques Kallis has been ruled out of the one-day series against England because of a rib injury, Cricket South Africa said last night.

A dramatic last-gasp winner from Darren Dods gave Dundee United their first victory over Celtic in 10 years.

Boyd 7; Miller 24; Whittaker 35

SFA must stop fluffing its lines and find a manager who commands total respect, argues Tom English

Nade 35 Samuel 60; Johansson 86

WHILE Scotland seem to think that they can do without Derek Riordan, Hibernian aren't so stubborn. Had it not been for the club's most fickle of strikers, whose inspir

Skrtel 50; Benayoun 77 Adebayor 69; Ireland 76

IN a Scotland on Sunday investigation, Moira Gordon looks for long-term solutions to lift our national game out of the current slough of despond

THE Celtic star got a £29K watch for his World Cup efforts but is hoping for even greater rewards, reports Paul Forsyth

JENNISON MYRIE-WILLIAMS is contemplating whether he could make it half the length of the Tannadice pitch doing keepy-uppies Jim Baxter-style. A talented player, he could, but