Niall Madden and Noel Meade teamed up for a 33 to 1 Galway Hurdle shocker with More Rainbows on Thursday but there will be no such fancy prices about for Irish Blade if he can land one of the Saturday festival features this afternoon.

The 42,500 Dawn Milk Handicap Hurdle will put a premium on stamina and Irish Blade is certainly at the right end of the weights despite being officially 3lb out of the proper ratings.

However, there are plenty of factors that look to outweigh that consideration and there is certainly no way that any of the parties involved can be described as being out of form.

Madden (19) is on a high after the biggest win of his career, the Meade team are generally running well and Irish Blade comes here on the back of a distance success at Killarney.

At the other end of the weights are plenty of potential dangers including Monday's GPT winner Kentucky Charm who returns to the jumping game on the back of a career high.

Another one on a winning streak is Ruby Walsh's mount Shandon Star but Irish Blade gets a lot of weight and will not lack for confidence on his back.

The most valuable race of the day is the 50,000 Premier Nursery which can provide John Murtagh's wife Orla with another summer success. Dream Catch has already hit the mark for the owner and Set Fire could do something similar. The Bertolini filly followed two runs over the minimum trip with a fourth to Dylan Thomas at Tipperary and Rory Cleary takes a valuable 3lb off an already light weight.

Rolling Home was in a flat handicap here on Tuesday but a run over hurdles the day before resulted in an exit. He's in a two-mile handicap today and he doesn't appear badly handicapped.

Sue Bramall was a festival winner with Heemanela during the week and could add to that with the Wexford victor Heritage in the handicap chase while the Dermot Weld camp can wind the day up successfully courtesy of Lavender Rose and Stolen Light.