A year ago, we gave 10 horses to follow for the National Hunt season and it worked out reasonably well, so it makes sense to have another go.

Kilavullen-based owner/trainer TJ Nagle appears to have an outstanding prospect on his hands in the form of Just A Par as the son of the Grand Lodge-sired stallion Island House destroyed the opposition under Richard O’Dea in the five-year-old geldings’ maiden at yesterday’s well-attended Galway Hunt point-to-point fixture at Dartfield outside Loughrea.

PRIDE Ofthe Parish, a horse who has clearly had problems, is the nap choice in the INH Stallion Owners’ EBF Maiden Hurdle at Limerick this afternoon.

THE three days at Leopardstown this week almost renewed one’s faith in this great game of ours.