Kazal could step back up to three miles for the BGC Long Walk Hurdle at Ascot next month following his run at Navan.

Alan King’s Blazing Bailey ran out an impressive winner of the Ladbrokes.com World Series Hurdle to follow up his success at Aintree.

Sizing Europe and defending champion Sublimity are among 17 declarations for the Smurfit Kappa Champion Hurdle on Tuesday.

JAZZ Messenger will head straight to Cheltenham for the Smurfit Kappa Champion Hurdle after pleasing Noel Meade when second at Gowran on Saturday.

Jazz Messenger will head straight to Cheltenham for the Smurfit Kappa Champion Hurdle after pleasing Noel Meade when second at Gowran on Saturday.

Jazz Messenger will head straight to Cheltenham for the Smurfit Kappa Champion Hurdle after pleasing Noel Meade when second at Gowran on Saturday.

Tom Taaffe still hopes to run Kicking King in the totesport Cheltenham Gold Cup despite a disappointing performance at Gowran Park.

McNamara completed a 186-1 big-race double at Gowran on Catch Me in the Red Mills Centenary Trial Hurdle this afternoon.

EDWARD O’Grady will wait an extra week with Catch Me for a more pragmatic target.

Osana heads the 30 horses confirmed for Sunday’s Greatwood Handicap Hurdle at Cheltenham after a number of higher-rated entries defected at the latest stage.

Former Champion Chase hero Moscow Flyer got the biggest cheer of the day when bounding to victory on his return to the racecourse in the 18th running of the Diageo Ireland Punchestown Charity Sweepstakes today.

MACS JOY, a brilliant winner of the race a year ago, is fancied to do the business again in the ACC Bank Champion Hurdle at the concluding stage of the Punchestown Festival today.

Former champion Irish amateur Philip Fenton saddles his first runners at Cheltenham next week as he begins his quest to add a training success to that as a jockey.

SLIPPERS MADDEN, brilliant aboard Jazz Messenger at Kempton on St Stephen's Day, rode another peach of a race when guiding Nickname to a smooth success in the Grade 1 Paddy Power Dial-A-Bet Chase at Leopardstown yesterday.