Nickname can Exit maiden ranks in bumper

The Willie Mullins-trained Nickname Exit sets the standard in today’s bumper in Clonmel, the Powerstown Flat Race.

Mullins and Gordon Elliott have dominated the season’s bumper action and both will be represented again today, by Gigginstown-owned five-year-olds. Of the pair, Nickname Exit has the more obvious form claims, having built on his sole point-to-point outing - a second in Kirkistown - to finish third in a two-and-a-half mile contest at Leopardstown’s Christmas meeting, beaten little more than six lengths

That form was boosted when the winner Russian Bill made a successful hurdling debut in Naas. With normal improvement, the Mullins runner should prove tough to beat here, provided the drop in trip suits him.