Fairyhouse tips: Eric Bloodaxe can strike on first start for Gordon Elliott

Elsewhere on the card, The Big Doyen can make a winning debut over obstacles

ON THE IMPROVE: Eric Bloodaxe showed signs that he was coming back to form when a good second on his final start for Joseph O'Brien. Picture: Healy Racing

By Fairyhouse standards, Tuesday's National Hunt programme is decidedly mundane, but there are a couple of races worth tuning in for. The 2023 Fairyhouse Membership Hurdle is the most interesting of all, despite only four being declared, and Eric Bloodaxe can use the opportunity to make a winning start for his new trainer, Gordon Elliott.

A high-class bumper horse a few seasons ago, he missed more than a year before returning in the Grade One bumper at the 2021 Punchestown festival and ran a fine race to finish fourth behind Kilcruit, O'Toole, and Sir Gerhard.