Dublin Racing Festival day two tips: Backtonormal can strike for Cromwell

The feature is the Grade One Irish Champion Hurdle and Lossiemouth can get back to winning ways following her Kempton defeat

POISED TO SHINE: Lossiemouth was never in her comfort zone at Kempton but was beaten less than three lengths by Constitution Hill, and that is the best piece of form any of these five horses has produced this season. Picture: Tom Maher/Inpho 

Sunday’s card is likely to be much the same as Saturday’s, with Willie Mullins dominating the big races, but the nap goes to the Gavin Cromwell-trained Backtonormal, who can make a successful handicap chasing debut in the O’Driscoll’s Irish Whiskey Leopardstown Handicap Chase.

On debut for the stable, in a hurdle at the Punchestown festival, he beat Answer To Kayf and, even allowing for the fact that it is end-of-season form, the runner-up is a high-class sort, and Backtonormal readily accounted for him.