Keep faith in The Jesuit
He's almost certainly had problems but his latest effort, on this track, gave promise of better to come.
Dessie Hughes' gelding, absent since the Galway Festival of last year, returned to action three weeks ago in a conditions hurdle and was the medium of some decent wagers.
He did his job really well, cruising to a four lengths defeat of the odds-on Smile Later.
The selection shapes like a horse who might do well over fences and is preferred to the veteran, Sabadilla, who showed he is far from a back number when half a length second to Lugante at Galway.
The down-in-class Saint Andrew is fancied to get off the mark in the Irish Stallion Farms' EBF Median Auction Maiden.
The Desert Prince colt, fourth behind He's A Decoy in a Listed event at Cork, was then far from disgraced when seventh to the useful Summit Surge at Leopardstown.
The rest of the card is made up of four handicaps and a dreadful claiming race and offers little cause for optimism.
But Shaykhan, a respectable fifth behind Flying Knight - successful subsequently at Gowran Park - at Galway should give us a big run in the JPS Property Development Handicap.
