Edward Harty saddles the JP McManus-owned Princeton Plains, who was last seen going down by a neck in a valuable handicap at Listowel in September in The Ladbroke, one of the most competitive handicap hurdles of the season at Ascot today.

TAWAAGG, without a win since scoring over fences at Gowran Park back in February, gets the nap in the Hurricane Hurdle at Downpatrick this afternoon.

THE featured Guinness Handicap Hurdle at Listowel yesterday saw Princeton Plains give trainer Eddie Harty a first winner at the track.

ALTHOUGH virtually ignored in the market, the Ruby Walsh ridden Sulwaan made a successful debut for Dermot Weld when proving too strong for Tavern Times and Princeton Plains in the Irish Stallion Farms Novice Hurdle in Sligo yesterday.