TONY MARTIN’S After Midnight justified strong market support when winning the first division of the Rover Handicap Hurdle at Listowel yesterday.

YOUNG VINTAGE, last of 21 on her latest appearance, gets the nap to take the Mares Hurdle on a rather ordinary six-race programme at Clonmel this evening.

RUBY WALSH has been good to us over the past few racing days and it would certainly be prudent to keep him on one’s side at Down Royal this afternoon.

TED WALH’S Top Strategy can stamp himself the best four-year-old timber-topper in the country by giving weight and a beating to his rivals in this afternoon’s Panoramic Restaurant Juvenile Hurdle at Punchestown, assuming the meeting passes an early morning inspection.

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