In-form Townend can strike on Kala Brandy

Kala Brandy, winner of her bumper in Wexford in March, might be capable of landing the Irish Stallion farms Mares Maiden Hurdle in Cork tonight for Paul Townend, fresh from his three winners at the Punchestown Festival last week, and his dad Tim.

In the frame in a couple of maiden hurdles in Clonmel, behind Theatre Bird and Keppols Queen respectively, she was no match for Honeys Joy in a Thurles bumper before beating subsequent winner Tigroney in Wexford.

The Cork card features three tricky-looking flat events and the consistent but luckless Battleroftheboyne, runner-up to Vasoni in Sligo on Sunday, should reward each-way support in the Mitchelstown Handicap.