Make it Messenger

NOEL MEADE'S Jazz Messenger has to be the nap choice to win the Grade Two Dunboyne Castle Hotel and Spa Novice Hurdle at Fairyhouse this afternoon.

The drying ground will be no problem to him and he comes here on the back of a career-best effort in the Supreme Novices' Hurdle at Cheltenham.

The five-year-old finished a creditable fifth behind Noland and might have done even better with a bit more luck on his side.