Today's Tips: Promising Our Duke poised to lord it again at Thurles

The feature on this afternoon’s card at Thurles is the Grade 2 Michael Purcell Memorial and the very promising Our Duke can follow up his maiden hurdle victory. Jessica Harrington’s six-year-old looked really smart when running away with a bumper which has worked out quite well, and then lost little in defeat behind Death Duty in another race which has had its form franked.

On his hurdling debut he proved too smart for the smart Pylonthepressure, and looks just the type to progress with experience. This is a considerable step up in class, but it’s far from insurmountable, and he is preferred to Acapella Bourgeois.

David O’Brien’s Freeway Space should take beating in the mares’ bumper.