Connections of Teeming Rain are confident of a decent comeback run after a seven-month absence in the williamhill.ie Troytown Handicap Chase at Navan on Sunday.

SIR FREDERICK can provide the answer to the Powerstown Chase at Clonmel today, should the meeting survive an 8am inspection this morning.

Merdeka faces the acid test as he steps up to Grade Two company for the first time in Sunday’s Woodlands Park 100 Slaney Novice Hurdle at Naas.

Merdeka, an emerging star from Tom Taaffe’s yard, will seek to give Kicking King’s trainer some timely compensation with success in the Grade Two Woodlands Park 100 Slaney Novice Hurdle at Naas on Sunday.

JUSTIFIED is fancied to run his rivals ragged in the Grade One Durkan New Homes Novice Chase at Leopardstown on Monday.