KICKHAM, owned by J.P. McManus , seventh in the Galway Guinness Hurdle, got back to winning form at Tipperary yesterday with a hard earned win in the Frank Hogan Limerick Mercedes Benz Novice Hurdle.

KICKHAM warmed up for a possible tilt at the Galway Hurdle when justifying odds of 2-7 in the Niall Brosnan and Co Solicitors’ Novice Hurdle at Killarney yesterday.

QUEST FOR A STAR, a useful sort when trained on the flat by John Oxx, can get off the mark over flights at the second time of asking in the Thurles Maiden Hurdle at Tipperary tonight.

AIDAN O’BRIEN’S Statue Of Liberty could make his eagerly-awaited seasonal debut in Wednesday’s Jersey Stakes at Royal Ascot.

BEEF OR SALMON, if Michael Hourigan decides to let him take his chance, can leave the nightmare of Cheltenham behind by landing a potentially cracking Heineken Gold Cup at Punchestown this afternoon.

KEVIN Prendergast’s Wrong Key can provide the solution to the Group Three Castlemartin and La Louviere Studs Gladness Stakes at the Curragh tomorrow.

NATIVE UPMANSHIP is a hopeful choice to provide the answer to the John Durkan Memorial Chase at Punchestown tomorrow.