CHARLIE SWAN’S Stephanie Kate is the nap choice to make a winning debut over fences in the Strandhill Mares’ Beginners Chase at Sligo this afternoon.

I THINK it’s fair to say I’m more hopeful than confident facing into the final day of Punchestown this afternoon.

Mr Cracker ran his three rivals into the ground to give trainer Michael Hourigan back-to-back victories in the Greenmount Park Novice Chase at Limerick.

HURRICANE FLY heads 13 five-day entries for the Bar One Racing Hatton’s Grace Hurdle at Fairyhouse on Sunday.

THE most interesting contest at Fairyhouse today is the P2P In The Irish Racing Post On Wednesday Novice Chase, which brings together a number of useful types.

BILL HARNEY, currently hospitalised, had a welcome boost when Prairie Call landed the Cashel Mares Maiden Hurdle at Thurles yesterday.

“THERE was great pleasure in that”, remarked Tom Cooper, after he watched his son, Bryan, guide the trainer’s Rossdara to success in the Cahir Mares Maiden hurdle at Clonmel yesterday.