Dermot Weld has had a record breaking season already and he can carve out another little bit of history at Tralee today if Darialann can win the £30,000 Guinness Gold Cup.

Weld has won the festival feature four times already including with Vintage Crop who just a year later broke the mould by winning the 1993 Melbourne Cup.

The only trainer with a comparable record in the race in its previous incarnations is the late Paddy Prendergast but in a competitive renewal Darialann might just be the shrewd option.

There are a number of horses who will fancy their chances against the Weld hope, however, and with justification. Gamekeeper for instance is just better off with Darialann for beating him by three necks in the GPT at Galway.

Gamekeeper's trainer Pat Hughes, successful in 1998 with Quinze, also runs Gift Token but Gamekeeper, despite looking a less than easy ride, looks the best of the Hughes duo.

Ranged against them all is the Galway Hurdle winner Perugino Diamond who proved his current well being with an easy win at Tramore afterwards.

Darialann went down by a length and a half to Perugino Diamond in the Galway Hurdle but Weld is convinced his horse would have won except for a last flight mistake.

Darialann also finished a place ahead of Perugino Diamond in the GPT which appears to advertise Gamekeeper's chance but this is a shorter trip and an easier track, a pair of considerations that could just swing it in favour of Darialann.

In the opener it's impossible to go against the Sadler's Wells colt Sligo Bay who missed an intended Leopardstown debut, won by stablemate Stone Age, due to being off feed while Ruby Walsh's presence on Willie Mullins's Casas in the three-year-old hurdle looks significant against the Tramore form of Neutron and Clewbay Storm.

Pat Flynn's string have hit an excellent stride and Rainbow Realm can follow up her neck defeat of Shvera at Tramore last week in the apprentice handicap. The performance was probably better than it sounds as Rainbow Realm ran free early on in that race.

Flynn's bumper candidate Native Kin was run out of it at Tramore when starting favourite but looks worth another chance while Silver Spray is preferred to Flynn's Catterick winner Steval in the mile handicap.