Today's Tips: Step up in trip and race fitness can see Tonkinese home at Clonmel

Tonkinese can make a successful step up in trip, to almost 10 furlongs, in the West Gate Median Auction Race this evening in Clonmel.

Michael Halford’s horse has his quirks, as he showed when needing to be hooded for loading last time at Dundalk, but there was little wrong with his effort there as he went down fighting in a tight finish with A Shin Impala.

That was over a mile on the all-weather, but the son of Authorized should have no trouble reverting to the turf, particularly as this ground will likely be quite quick here.