Naas target for Newmill

Tom O’Leary has pencilled in Newmill for his eagerly-awaited chasing debut at Naas on Saturday as long as he has not been affected by a bout of coughing in the yard.

The undoubted star of the trainer’s small Cork-based string, Newmill has only once finished out of the first two in nine starts, when something was clearly amiss, and he established himself as one of the leading novices in Ireland last term.