Punchestown tips: Pictures Of Home can land the spoils

Free Thought and Danny Mullins (right) beats Pictures Of Home (left) and Ensel Du Perche (centre) to win the Support Local This Christmas Maiden Hurdle last month. Pictures of Home can have a better outcome today. Picture: Healy Racing.

Back to Punchestown this afternoon for a decent programme, and the steadily progressive Pictures Of Home can make a winning handicap debut in the Ladbrokes Giving Extra Places Every Day Handicap Hurdle.

His latest run, in which he finished well to push Free Thought to half a length in a Naas Maiden Hurdle, suggested he would appreciate the step up to three miles which he takes today. A five-year-old with little mileage on the clock, he should have plenty more to give and today’s race looks an ideal opportunity to get off the mark.