RACING:HURRICANE FLY'S much-anticipated return to action is still on for Sunday's Ladbrokes Morgiana Hurdle at Punchestown where his principal opposition is likely to come from very close to home.
Champion trainer Willie Mullins also has So Young and the French Champion Hurdle winner Thousand Stars entered for the Grade 1 event and outlined yesterday plans to run all three.
“They will work during the week and we’ll see how they do but everything that is in there we’re looking at running,” Mullins said. “I need to get runs into them.”
Jessica Harrington’s Oscars Well is also a possible starter but Colm Murphy indicated at Navan yesterday that Voler La Vedette is more likely to wait for the Hatton’s Grace Hurdle after her Lismullen victory.
The Mullins team will be interested in today’s Limerick opener where Bold Banks, having his first start in almost two years, returns to action in the maiden hurdle and they also have Bundle Of Fun in the handicap chase. The second of the Beginners Chases looks a competitive heat but it does look significant that Jessica Harrington is sending The Engineer straight over fences after being placed in three bumpers and running just once over flights.
