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.

THE dropped-in-class Holly Tree is the choice to win the Irish National Hunt Festival Novice Hurdle at Punchestown this afternoon.

THURLES may be right at the bottom of the Racing Post’s list of what a racecourse should be, understandably, but is top of the hit-parade as far as racegoers are concerned.