BENEFIT Of Porter is fancied to shrug off top weight in the Coola Handicap Hurdle at Kilbeggan tonight.

“THEY have done a fantastic job with the watering,” said Frank Berry, racing manager to JP McManus, after the owner’s Abbey Glen had swooped late to grab the John J Galvin Handicap Hurdle at Listowel yesterday.

TRAINER John Hanlon isn’t called the shark for nothing and at Tramore yesterday his heavily-backed Bandama scorched away with the Tote Go Racing Maiden Hurdle for amateur riders.

PERSIAN CITY was introduced at 40/1 by Cashmans for the Ballymore Properties Novices’ Hurdle at Cheltenham following his smooth success in the INH Stallion Owners’ EBF Novice Hurdle at Limerick yesterday.

GENERAL MONTCALM gets the nap to land the Garryrichard Stud Tetratema Cup Hunters ’Chase on a seven-race programme confined to point-to-pointers at Gowran Park this afternoon.