Tranquil Sea had little difficulty following up last year’s win in the Clonmel Oil Chase at the County Tipperary track.

THE race-fit Tharawaat is the choice in the Grade 2 Clonmel Oil Chase at the Co Tipperary track this afternoon.

Edward O'Grady's dual Grade One winner Tranquil Sea bids to land the Clonmel Oil Chase for the second successive year tomorrow.

THE first three home in the Ryanair Chase at Cheltenham last year — Albertas Run, Poquelin and J’y Vole — are set to lock horns in the race again tomorrow.

Leading fancy Tranquil Sea has been ruled out of the Ryanair Chase at Cheltenham on Thursday following an unsatisfactory scope.

Voy Por Ustedes is a fascinating supplementary entry for the Ryanair Chase at Cheltenham on Thursday.

J’Y VOLE has plenty going for her in the Grade 2 Matty Ryan Memorial Kinloch Brae Chase at Thurles this afternoon and gets the nap.

Albertas Run could bid to became the first dual winner of the Ryanair Chase at Cheltenham in March.

Edward O’Grady is among a legion of Irish trainers gladdened by a break in the weather as his Tranquil Sea returns to the track seeking his first Grade One win in the John Durkan Memorial Punchestown Chase at Fairyhouse.

THE classy Edward O’Grady-trained Tranquil Sea toyed with the opposition on his way to landing the Grade 2 Clonmel Oil Chase at Clonmel yesterday.

EDWARD O’GRADY’S Tranquil Sea can provide the solution to the Grade 2 Clonmel Oil Chase at Clonmel this afternoon.

Last year’s Paddy Power Gold Cup winner Tranquil Sea heads a field of seven for the Clonmel Oil Chase at the Powerstown Park venue tomorrow.

A RIGHT bit of fun organising to get to Haydock for my solitary ride this afternoon. (My sister and agent) Jennifer was wondering why she was struggling to get me into Manchester until it dawned that there’s a pretty important Premier League game at Old Trafford at lunchtime (I’ll take the draw for United by the way, more than happy with a point).

FOUR impossible-to-solve handicaps, on a six-race programme, make Cheltenham this afternoon a less than enticing prospect.

PAUL Nicholls believes Poquelin has every chance of reversing Paddy Power Gold Cup form with Irish raider Tranquil Sea as the pair clash again in the Ryanair Chase.

Paul Nicholls believes Poquelin has every chance of reversing Paddy Power Gold Cup form with Irish raider Tranquil Sea as the pair clash again in the Ryanair Chase.

ANDREW McNamara feels Tranquil Sea and Alaivan are his two best chances of glory at Cheltenham.

IF Tranquil Sea wins the Ryanair Chase at Cheltenham on March 18, there seems little doubt connections will look back at Leopardstown last Sunday as having played a massive part in the success.

By Ashley Iveson, Press Association Sport

MOST people probably think the last week has been all about the likes of Master Minded and Denman, but I disagree.

MORNING SUPREME is the nap choice to run her rivals ragged in the Grade 2 paddypower.com Novice Hurdle at Naas tomorrow.

Edward O’Grady’s Tranquil Sea will complete his Cheltenham Festival preparations in the paddypowerpoker.com Chase at Naas on Sunday.

AT WELL over six foot, Andrew McNamara cuts a disproportionate figure for a National Hunt jockey. You get used to seeing the more, let’s say, compact jockeys coming and going from the weighroom, but the sight of McNamara emerging into the parade ring alongside his colleagues – literally head and shoulders above them – is a strange one.

PADDY Power Gold Cup winner Tranquil Sea may have one more run before returning to Cheltenham for a crack at the Ryanair Chase.

Paddy Power Gold Cup winner Tranquil Sea may have one more run before returning to Cheltenham for a crack at the Ryanair Chase.

Paul Nolan was delighted to see Joncol’s form receive a huge boost at the weekend ahead of a likely tilt at the John Durkan Memorial Punchestown Chase.

Edward O’Grady, the leading Irish trainer at the Cheltenham Festival, stamped his mark on the track four months earlier than usual as Tranquil Sea ended Ireland’s barren stretch in the Paddy Power Gold Cup.

MY main ambition, as far as Cheltenham today is concerned, is to walk out of the place relatively unscathed.

THE rapidly improving Solwhit got the better of Punjabi at the end of a pulsating Rabobank Champion Hurdle at Punchestown last evening.

I’M in pretty good shape right now and feel about ten times better than I did a week ago.

TRAFFORD LAD, a horse who has been good to us in the past, is again entrusted with the nap in the Bar One Racing Drinmore Chase on a smashing card at Fairyhouse tomorrow.

Smart novice hurdler Tranquil Sea looks to be going places over the larger obstacles after impressing on his fencing debut in the paddypower.com EBF Novice Chase at Cork today.

A brilliant tactical ride by Barry Geraghty saw Nicky Henderson’s Punjabi decisively land the ACC Bank Champion Hurdle at Punchestown yesterday.

TRANQUIL SEA, outclassed when eighth of 22 behind Captain Cee Bee at Cheltenham, found his level in the Dunraven Arms Hotel Novice Hurdle at Limerick yesterday.

THE relatively new combination of Edward O’Grady and Andrew McNamara was cemented in spectacular style at Leopardstown yesterday in front of an attendance of 17,000.