Graduate set to make it third time lucky

DERMOT WELD and Pat Smullen are the combination to follow at the first meeting of the year at Tipperary this evening.

The duo’s Notable Graduate is the nap choice in the Curragh Racecourse Members’ Maiden. He is by Galileo and a half-brother to Weld’s English 2000 Guineas winner of 2003, Refuse To Bend.

Notable Graduate ran once last season, finishing with a flourish when beaten half a length into second by the subsequent winner, Tiz The Shot, at Leopardstown in October