National looks Northern bound

NORTHERN ALLIANCE is fancied to give Tony Martin a first ever success in the Guinness Kerry National at Listowel this afternoon.

A prolific winner, the eight-year-old has every chance of enjoying his biggest success to date.

Northern Alliance hasn’t been seen since running a cracker in the Galway Hurdle at the end of July and has, you would think, been laid out for this in the meantime.