NOEL Meade plans to give Go Native a post-racing workout at Leopardstown on Sunday week to crown his preparations for the Smurfit Kappa Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham on March 16.

Paul Carberry is facing a spell on the sidelines after spraining his ankle in a fall from Champus in the Trim Maiden Hurdle at Naas yesterday.

WHINSTONE BOY added to his considerable gains in the Thyestes Chase at Gowran Park two weeks earlier, with another terrific display in the Kilcash Chase at Clonmel yesterday.

NOEL MEADE’S Skylancer can take the second division of the Charlie Chute Memorial Maiden Hurdle at the final stage of the Listowel Festival this afternoon.