Icy Reply looks set to deliver in mares’ maiden

Ireland houses two rather drab programmes this weekend, but a winner is a winner and Dessie Hughes’ Icy Reply is fancied to deliver in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Mares’ Hurdle at Navan this afternoon.

She got off the mark in a modest three-mile maiden at Cork in July and has gone from strength to strength in the meantime.

The four-year old followed by beating Clara Mc Cloud comfortably at Tipperary, prior to heading to the Galway festival.