Leg Spinner was last seen bounding up the Ascot straight to win one of the Shergar Cup races under the legendary Japanese rider Yutaka Take but it looks like being a tougher grind for Tony Martin's horse at Listowel tomorrow.

Ruby Walsh's mount tops the weights in the two-mile conditions hurdle and will also be carrying an official handicap mark a full 16lb higher than his last jumps start.

That came at the Galway festival when Davy Russell cruised to an easy win on the horse but it shouldn't be like that this time as the high-class novice chaser Mister Top Notch is also involved, as is Russell's mount, Seamies Dream.

The latter gets a nice chunk of weight from Leg Spinner and the form of his Ballinrobe defeat of Dingle Belle last July got a timely boost during the week in Tuesday's Lartigue Hurdle.

Ruby Walsh is also on the topweight Macs Flamingo in the featured €40,000 Dawn Milk Handicap Chase and a weight concession to an attractive proposition at the other end of the scale looks like being decisive.

Mister Month couldn't win in four starts over fences last winter but there was a lot to like about his comeback at Tralee when Charlie Swan's 10-year-old blitzed his opposition in a maiden hurdle.

Barry Geraghty will be the punters' choice in the Beginners Chase when he teams up with Druids Castle whose second to Meet The Family at Tralee gives him a clear shout. Geraghty may also end up fancying his chances in the second division of the two and a half mile handicap hurdle on board Rushin' Russian who ran second to Finns Cross here on Monday.

However, it could well emerge that the real serious players will wait for the traditional festival curtain call, the Supporters Club Slan Abhaile Race, and get stuck into Tony Martin's Top The Charts who won a Down Royal hurdle on his last start and who will have the invaluable assistance of the champion amateur Nina Carberry.

Life For Rent was expensively beaten behind My Valley at Galway but he looks a safer option for the opening three mile maiden hurdle than Uncle Junior who was a 2 to 7 flop on his hurdling debut at Kilbeggan.

Allgrownup easily won a maiden at Downpatrick and might be ready for a competitive mares handicap hurdle.