DAVY RUSSELL certainly looks the pilot to have on one’s side at the first meeting of the National Hunt campaign to be held at Thurles this afternoon.

AINAMA looks the safest bet — on a very poor card — in the P.Flannery Plant Hire Group London Chase at Ballinrobe this evening.

EOIN DOYLE’S The Fonze won the 16th race of his life when giving an exhibition of jumping in the Limerick Junction Chase at Tipperary last night.