Wexford preview

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The St Patrick's Day action comes from Wexford, while racegoers also have Down Royal to choose from on a busy day where plenty of eyes will be on Cheltenham.

Francis Flood's Slievecorragh had shown some consistent form in handicaps and gained reward for those efforts when storming home by four lengths at Naas last time. He is out to follow up in the Richard Browne & Sons Ltd. Hurdle at Wexford.

Dermot Weld may be more preoccupied with Rite Of Passage and his Champion Bumper horses across the Irish Sea, but his Vital Plot could prove the biggest danger to Slievecorragh if finding his best form.

Just three runners go to post for the Martin Kent Memorial Chase, but all can be given a shout.

Organisedconfusion comes here in winning form having struck at Gowran Park, while Frontier Lady was still in the box seat when coming to grief last time and will be out to make amends.

The one to be on, though, could be The Last Hurrah, who has been campaigned over hurdles in recent years but showed form over the larger obstacles when fourth in a Grade Three at Roscommon.

The meeting gets under way at 2.25 with the New Ross Maiden Hurdle, which sees Paul Nolan's Point Of Light bid to make it third-time lucky after two fourth-placed finishes.

Groody Hill also filled fourth spot on his debut at Fairyhouse and is likely to improve, while support for debutant Ardahullagh could prove significant.

Kylebeg Krystle will be out to regain the winning thread in the Michael O'Murchada Mem Novice Handicap Hurdle, while the concluding Irish Stallion Farms EBF INH Flat Race could be at the mercy of the Noel Meade-trained Style Of Campile, who has gone close at Navan and Fairyhouse on his two previous visits to the racecourse.