Aidan O’Brien is definitely the most self-deprecating trainer in the country and, when knocking himself, something he does quite often, most take it with the proverbial pinch of salt.

Many races at the four-day Killarney meeting, starting on Monday, will be scrutinised with one thing in mind - the Galway festival at the end of the month.

Dermot Weld’s described the result as “very appropriate” after Voleuse De Coeurs landed the listed Vintage Crop Stakes in convincing style in Navan yesterday.

Noel Meade’s Monksland can make a winning seasonal debut in the Grade 2 WKD Hurdle at Down Royal This afternoon.

The Dermot Weld-trained Voleuse De Coeurs gave Tuam-born apprentice Leigh Roche the biggest win of his career when justifying 6/1 favouritism in the Hacketts Bookmakers Irish Cesarewitch at the Curragh yesterday.

Face Value answered conditional rider David Splaine’s every call to run out a determined winner of the Topaz Novice Hurdle at Galway.

HIDDEN Universe, a beaten odds-on favourite in the race last year, looks good in today’s October Maiden at Navan.