THURLES this afternoon houses what can be best described as a proper eight-race National Hunt programme, delightfully only one of them a handicap.

THE mildly progressive Got Attitude looks well capable of squeezing through the opening Urlingford Maiden Hurdle at Thurles today.

CORK on Sunday offers the only hope of racing in Ireland this weekend and is subject to an 8am inspection tomorrow morning.

AIDAN O’BRIEN, yet to get off the mark for the season, could team up with Seamus Heffernan for a treble at Limerick today.

THE progressive Chomba Womba dug deep to land the Dawn Omega EBF Mares Novice Hurdle at Limerick yesterday.

A selection in the top race on the programme at Wexford this afternoon is arrived at by process of elimination. Nine are set to contest this €21,000 two mile Menapia Classic Mouldings Hurdle.

CANDY GIRL, lightly-raced and who has had her problems in the past, can provide the solution to the Morning Star Belfast EBF Mares Novice Hurdle at Downpatrick this afternoon.

IT’S a familiar theme, and there is every reason to believe that having the Ruby Walsh-Willie Mullins combination on your side should again pay dividends at Clonmel this afternoon.

FREDS BENEFIT gets the nap to land the most interesting contest on the programme at Limerick this afternoon, the www.hacketts.ie Novice Hurdle.

LISTENING to Ruby Walsh at the Cashmans’ Cheltenham preview-night on Monday you would be inclined to avail of the 7-4 or so available about him to be leading jockey at next week’s Festival.