Next Week looks poised to go one better

A GROUP 3 and a Listed race are the features at Cork this afternoon, but first things first and it is to the 22-runner Killetra Maiden Hurdle that we look for a winning nap in the shape of Next Week.

Jimmy Mangan's seven-year-old, one suspects, has had his problems and this will only be his second appearance on the racecourse and his third in all.

He began life by winning a point-to-point at Kirkistown in Co Down in February of last year and was then missing until reappearing on this track 24 days ago.