He seems fine and I am happy with him... two miles and five furlongs around Cheltenham is right up his street.

A selection in the top race on the programme at Wexford this afternoon is arrived at by process of elimination. Nine are set to contest this €21,000 two mile Menapia Classic Mouldings Hurdle.

WHAT an extraordinary game this is. On Wednesday, Tony McCoy got injured and was replaced on the eventual winner of the Galway Plate, Far From Trouble, by Roger Loughran.

Hardy Eustace, winner of last year’s Smurfit Champion Hurdle, is one of nine preliminary entries for Saturday’s Red Mills Trial Hurdle at Gowran.

PAT VERLING struck a blow for the smaller man when training and riding Sabadilla to a tremendous success in yesterday’s Guinness Galway Hurdle at Ballybrit, before an attendance of 37,394.