Michael can be Top Man

An all National Hunt card with little to recommend it is just about the best summing up of what’s on offer at Roscommon tonight.

When one feels the need to nap a horse, Top Man Michael, in a contest in which none of the 16 contestants have previously jumped a hurdle in public then that really is scraping the bottom of the barrel.

But such is the case in the Railway Bar Maiden Hurdle, the first race for three-year-olds this season.