A six-day festival and the prospect of soft ground throughout means the byword of the week at Listowel has to be stamina. But while the first shoots of the upcoming winter jumping season are appearing at the north Kerry track, it looks like Seviche can get punters off to a winning start in the opening flat race.

The filly is trained by the locally born Tommy Stack, who loves to have a winner at Listowel, and with the testing ground in store, conditions look to have turned in Seviche's favour.

She ran second on her Sligo debut, admittedly in a poor race, and afterwards did well to get fourth behind the promising Enrich on fast ground at Cork. As a daughter of College Chapel, though, Seviche should relish the dig in the surface and Wayne Lordan, successful on Stack's Dunedin Rascal last week, takes a valuable 5lb off her back.

The most valuable race of the day is the £15,000 Aer Rianta Amateur Handicap, where both Pat Hughes and Pat Flynn saddle three each and notable names like Moscow Express also figure. It's an extremely trappy looking contest but maybe a speculative each-way chance can be given to The Cushman, for whom Robbie Walsh is an interesting booking.

The beginners' chase has a tradition of being the first fencing start for some smart young jumpers, and Aldino looks like continuing that tradition in the first division. Norman Williamson's mount had Sausalito Bay behind him when a Grade One runner-up to Moscow Flyer at Punchestown and before that had run fourth to Phardante Flyer at Liverpool.

A Thurles success during the winter indicates Aldino will be all right on the ground; while in the second division it could be that Bodies Pride, a Kilbeggan maiden hurdle winner, can improve on her subsequent second to the smart Bushmans River.