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Off time: 18:43 | Winning time: 4m 27.40s

Flidais¹⁵

Age: 5| Weight: 11-3| J: Liam Quinlan⁽⁵⁾| T: J P Ryan| CD

10/1

Fairly useful hurdler. Career best when winning 14-runner novice hurdle (6/1) at this C&D (good to soft) 15 days ago, easily. This is more demanding.

Form: 4592-91

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La Prima Donna^p³²⁴

Age: 6| Weight: 11-3| J: K Callaghan⁽⁷⁾| T: W P Mullins| OR: 129| BF

13/8

Useful hurdler. One win from 3 runs last season. 10/3, brought down in handicap hurdle at Galway (22.8f, heavy). Off 10 months but will surely go close if ready to roll.

Form: 2F25/1B-

Space Tourist²⁴

Age: 6| Weight: 11-3| J: Sean Cleary-Farrell⁽⁷⁾| T: W P Mullins

6/4

Fairly useful hurdler. 4/6, career best when winning 18-runner novice hurdle at Limerick (19f, good to soft) 24 days ago, comfortably. May well do better. La Prima Donna appears to be the stable No 1.

Form: 503/13-1

Media Naranja²⁰

Age: 4| Weight: 11-2| J: C McGivern⁽⁷⁾| T: G Elliott| OR: 114

7/2

Lightly-raced winner over hurdles. 6/5, career best when winning 9-runner juvenile hurdle at Ballinrobe (16.2f, good) 20 days ago. Should go well with Corey McGivern again aboard.

Form: 4213-1

Weliketoparty⁸

Age: 5| Weight: 10-11| J: Shane Fitzgerald| T: E McCarthy

125/1

Once-raced maiden. Tenth of 16 in novice hurdle at Punchestown (16f, good, 150/1) on NH debut 8 days ago. Readily passed over.

Form: 0

Non-Runners

Katherine¹⁴

Weight: 10-11| Age: 6

T: A Sexton J: Richard Condon

Forecasts

Space Tourist (6/4), La Prima Donna (13/8), Media Naranja (7/2), Flidais (10/1), Katherine (12/1), Weliketoparty (125/1)

A Willie Mullins 1-2 looks likely with LA PRIMA DONNA taken to account for stablemate Space Tourist. The latter has the benefit of a recent run under her belt, and it was a pretty impressive one at that in making a winning hurdles debut at Limerick. She is open to improvement but La Prima Donna boasts solid form credentials and was sent off favourite for a valuable Galway handicap on her latest start last July, only to be brought down at the third-last. Media Naranja is best of the rest.