Apt looks the best approach
Apt Approach may well be a horse for the future, although Faltering Fullback does have a big edge in experience and that could prove decisive.
Faltering Fullback produced a career-best effort at the recent Punchestown Festival, finishing a length and a quarter second behind Sesenta in what was a fiercely competitive handicap.
Apt Approach, a useful bumper horse, made a successful debut over flights with an effortless 15 lengths victory in a moderate race at Fairyhouse.
He had nothing to beat that day, but will arrive here a very fresh horse and gets preference over his rival, who did have a hard race only nine days ago.
Apt Approach will be ridden by Ruby Walsh - if he passes the doctor following a fall yesterday - for Willie Mullins and the duo can combine to take the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Beginners Chase with Sports Line.
He got off the mark over flights at Punchestown and was particularly impressive last time when making all to beat Corskeagh Royal at Naas.
This was always likely to be his game and a decent round of jumping should see the progressive six-year-old safely home in front.
Mullins and Walsh can also provide the solution to the Laurels’ Bar Maiden Hurdle with Quadrillon, who will be making his debut over jumps.
He was outclassed behind Dunguib at Punchestown, taking seventh, but shapes like a thorough stayer and this two and a half miles looks an ideal starting point.
Daasij, who can expected to improve plenty for his first outing of the campaign, seventh to Zarinava at the Curragh, gets the vote in the Killarneys Racegoers’ Club Race.
