Fairyhouse tips: Sideshift can put experience to good use

Rock On Barney to defy 18lb. rise in the weights and complete hat-trick

Sideshift (left) can get off the mark over hurdles at Fairyhouse in the 3-y-0 maiden hurdle. Picture: Healy Racing

Sideshift will be expected to continue Gordon Elliott’s domination of the season’s juvenile hurdling scene in the Tattersalls Cheltenham 3-Y-0 Maiden Hurdle in Fairyhouse today.

Successful once from eight starts on the Flat for Michael O’Callaghan and bought for €27,000, the Sidestep gelding was collared late on his hurdling bow at Galway last week and should put that experience to good use here.