Irish tips: Brides Hill can maintain family honour

At The Curragh, Harsh can get punters off to a winning start by taking the Mongey Communications Irish EBF Maiden

JUMPING TO IT: Brides Hill won a competitive handicap hurdle off a mark of 121 at Leopardstown’s Christmas meeting. Picture: Healy Racing

Two meetings Saturday afternoon, and Brides Hill will take a great deal of beating in the Return Of The Jumps Mares’ Beginners’ Chase which gets Fairyhouse’s National Hunt card underway.

Winner of a competitive handicap hurdle off a mark of 121 at Leopardstown’s Christmas meeting, she pulled up at the Dublin Racing Festival but bounced back to form with a fine third behind Party Central in a mares’ Listed hurdle at the Punchestown festival. She ended last season with a mark of 137 over hurdles and that sets the standard amongst today’s rivals.