PADDY MULLINS’ Nopekan is fancied to land the nap in the Heineken W T O’Grady Memorial Hurdle at Thurles this afternoon.

BACK ON TOP is the choice to give John Hassett and Shay Barry a first ever success in the Hewlett-Packard Galway Plate at Ballybrit this afternoon.

JIM Bolger’s Sauntering, having the fifth outing of his life and still a maiden, gets the nap to land the June Handicap at Clonmel this evening.

THE John Oxx bandwagon can roll relentlessly on at Tralee today, where he has prospects of a double with Afreen and Kossu.

J P MCMANUS and Christy Roche have a very promising horse in Wouldn’t You Agree, who justified odds-on favouritism with a smooth success in the Monard Novice Hurdle at Tipperary yesterday.