RITE Of Passage hardened as favourite for the Neptune Investments Novice Hurdle at Cheltenham after recording what his trainer Dermot Weld described as a “satisfactory” win in the Book Your Festival Tickets Hurdle at Punchestown yesterday.

MIDDLE Persia will be strongly fancied to open her account in the opening Irish Stallion Farms Fillies Maiden, if tonight’s Clonmel meeting survives an 8.30.a.m. inspection.

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