TOMMY STACK may be she man to follow at Tramore this evening when the Co Tipperary trainer looks to have bright prospects of landing a first and last race double with Manetti and High Powered.
Manetti has run some useful races on the Flat - notably when second to Coast Is Clear at Dundalk last May - and the £2,226 Riverstown QR Maiden Hurdle is certainly well within his capabilities.
The Reference Point colt showed he was taking some sort of a liking to the winter game when third to Sudden Storm and Dundock Wood at Kilbeggan last Friday night.
High Powered returns to the track where he ran the useful Priolina to a length in a 12-furlong maiden in June. The Danehill gelding may prove too strong for his four rivals in the Brownstown Head Maiden.
Na Huibheachu has put up some respectable performances this season without quite managing to get his nose in front. The gelding may get his just rewards in the Mean Fiddler Festival Handicap where he meets up with an old rival, I Remember Well.
The two met over this course and distance in June and Na Huibheachu came out on top to the tune of a length and a half. He should prevail again and may have more to fear from dual Ballinrobe runner-up, Genial at Wexford, Digadust followed up that success when staying on strongly in the closing stages to take the Mentec Handicap on the third day of the Galway Festival.
The improving sort forged to the front at the furlong pole and despite drifting left, he beat Miltonfiled and No Dunce - a winner at Wexford on Tuesday night - by two lengths and one length. He is taken to complete a hat trick in the Guiness QR Handicap in the hands of Philip Fenton.
Aidan O'Brien should not go home empty handed and he can complete a double courtesy of Murphy's Malt (second to Star Defector at Roscommon last month) in the Cunningham INH Flat Race and Choisya (runner-up to Friday Thirteenth at Sligo last week) in the Woodstown Beginners Chase.
Bookmakers were writing of, Jim Bolger at the beginning of the season but they were certainly not, reckoning on the Coolcullen trainer's amazing appetite for a challenge. He takes one runner to Dundalk, Caiseal Ros (second to, Mount Rushmore at Galway) in the Forkhill EBF Maiden, and the tip should be noted.
. With the series due to end at Moonee Valley on Saturday, the Irish jump jockeys took a healthy seven-point (31 to 24) lead after yesterday's proceedings at Melbourne track Sandown.
David Casy rode his second winner on the tour when getting 12 to 1 chance Noholme Bandit home ahead of the Garrett Cotterpartnered Moghul in the Australia-Ireland Hurdle.
The Aussies had some consolation when they lifted the chase after Pringeville, ridden by Ricky Maung, beat Sunday News by 18 lengths.
