THE improving Charlie’s Vic gets the nod in the five-runner Irish Stallion Farms EBF Mares’ Novice Hurdle at Downpatrick this afternoon.

PRINCETON PLAINS, who failed to win a maiden over flights or on the flat, broke his duck in style with a last-gasp success in the valuable ladbrokes.com Handicap Hurdle at Killarney yesterday.

MOUSE Morris’ Recital Public is the one to beat in the Urlingford Maiden Hurdle at Thurles this afternoon.

Andrew McNamara was taken to hospital for precautionary x-rays after injuring his ankle at Galway.

CAPTAIN CONFLICT, a horse who has shown more than a hint of temperament on a couple of occasions, can get off the mark over fences in the Comeragh Beginners Chase at Clonmel this afternoon.