Carrigmoornaspruce appeals most at Royal Down 

Elsewhere, Donnacha O’Brien’s filly Aegina can take opening two-year-old fillies’ maiden at Dundalk

Carrigmoornaspruce & Michael Kenneally winning the Buckley Agri Mares Maiden Hurdle at Listowel in September. Picture: Healy Racing

Carrigmoornaspruce, from the in-form yard of Declan Queally, should be tough beat in the Irish EBF Feathard Lady Mares Novice Hurdle in Down Royal on Friday.

It’s the first stage of the track’s traditional two-day meeting which launches the jumps season proper, featuring the first Grade One contest of the campaign, the BetVictor Champion Chase, on Saturday.