PAUL NOLAN’S Cuan Na Grai will prove hard to beat in the Town and District Chase at Tipperary tonight.

PAUL NOLAN’S classy Cuan Na Grai toyed with the opposition on the way to landing the Supermacs’ Drive Thru Hurdle at Limerick yesterday.

Perennial bridesmaid Barizan enjoyed his day in the sun as he gained a deserved Grade One triumph in the Airshow 100 Champion Four Year Old Hurdle at Punchestown today.

La Touche Cup runner-up Freneys Well went one better in the Irish Field Chase at Punchestown.

A massive gamble on Deutschland, in the Arthur Guinness Galway Hurdle at Ballybrit yesterday, went astray when he proved no match for the Pat Flynn-trained 20-1 shot Bahrain Storm.

BOOKMAKERS are predicting Willie Mullins’ Deutschland could go off a warm order in today’s Arthur Guinness Galway Hurdle.

Trainer John ’Shark’ Hanlon is targeting a Galway Festival double with Truckers Delight next week.

ON an afternoon when Niall Madden enjoyed a first ever four-timer, Jumbo Rio, fresh from two cracking efforts behind the high-class Rendons Grace at Auteuil, showed what a game customer he is when taking the featured Kevin McManus Bookmaker Grimes Hurdle at Tipperary yesterday.

Jumbo Rio was rewarded for two valiant efforts in France with success in the Kevin McManus Bookmaker Grimes Hurdle at Tipperary.

CUAN Na Grai, taken out twice of late because of quick ground by Paul Nolan, found conditions to his liking in the Festival 18th and 19th July Hurdle at Tipperary last night.

ANOTHER page in the remarkable history of the Mullins racing dynasty was written at Clonmel last night when Bachelor Affair provided Gerard Mullins with his first training success.

Cuan Na Grai could return to Galway, the scene of his greatest triumph, after opening his account over fences at Killarney.

FALTERING FULLBACK buckled down in fine style to land the McSweeney Arms’ Hotel Hurdle at Killarney last night.

Edward O’Grady is no clearer to deciding Catch Me’s Cheltenham Festival - despite his bloodless victory at Navan.

Willie Mullins will launch a two-pronged attack headed by Jayo and Golden Silver in a bid to secure the Arkle Perpetual Challenge Cup at Leopardstown on Sunday.

PAUL Nolan is set to let Cuan Na Grai have his first start over fences in the Arkle Perpetual Challenge Cup Novice Chase at Leopardstown on Sunday.

Such was the extraordinary form of trainer Nicky Henderson at Ascot on Saturday, the only surprise about Sentry Duty winning a particularly competitive renewal of The Ladbroke was his odds of 12-1.

Belcantista, ante-post gamble for The Ladbroke, has sneaked in one from bottom in the 21-horse line-up.

CONNECTIONS of Don’t Push It are confident the eight-year-old will give a good account of himself in the Paddy Power Gold Cup at Cheltenham on Saturday.

Paul Nolan is aiming to lay down the foundations for a potential attempt at a third victory in the Guinness Galway Hurdle by running French Accordion at Limerick on Sunday.

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.

Paul Nolan admitted there will be “no excuses” when smart novice hurdler Cuan Na Grai returns to the track in the Rathberrry & Glenview Studs Festival Novice Hurdle at Fairyhouse on Sunday.

QUEEN MOTHER Champion Chase hope Accordion Etoile is back in work again ahead of the spring campaign.

HE may be rising 14 years old, but Spot Thedifference shows no signs of slowing and landed his fifth success over the cross-country course in the Sporting Index Chase on the first day of Cheltenham’s Open meeting.

FESTIVAL possible Kalderon has his first taste of Cheltenham today in the Anglo Irish Private Banking Novices’ Hurdle. Connections have the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle back at Prestbury Park in March as the main objective for the six-year-old.

Paul Nolan ruled exciting second-season chaser Accordion Etoile out until next year after the Grade One winner met with a setback in training.

HARCHIBALD is the star attraction on a cracking card at Tipperary tomorrow.

Cuan Na Grai could be set for an appearance at Cheltenham in November after giving Paul Nolan a third Guinness Galway Hurdle success yesterday.

WHAT an extraordinary game this is. On Wednesday, Tony McCoy got injured and was replaced on the eventual winner of the Galway Plate, Far From Trouble, by Roger Loughran.

Paul Nolan landed his third Guinness Galway Hurdle when Cuan Na Grai made all under super sub Paddy Flood on the fourth day of the festival meeting.

PAUL NOLAN'S Cuan Na Grai completed a hat-trick with a very decent performance in the Novice Hurdle at Limerick yesterday.

ROLLING HOME, a desperately unlucky loser at Kilbeggan last time, can set the record straight in the Family Raceday Novice Chase at Limerick tomorrow.

PAUL NOLAN’S Cuan Na Grai can provide the solution to the Tommy James Plant Hire and Civil Engineering Ltd Novice Hurdle at Wexford this evening.

DAVY RUSSELL, fresh from finishing a creditable third in the jockeys' championship behind Ruby Walsh and Barry Geraghty, is clearly intent on another good campaign.