Willie Mullins has a number of live chances on a high-class card at Navan, including the top-rated Twinlight in the feature race, the Grade Two Ladbrokes Ireland Fortria Chase.
The seven-year-old never got competitive in the Champion Chase at Punchestown when last seen but has form in this sort of grade, and looks very closely matched with Henry De Bromhead's Days Hotel.
De Bromhead also runs Special Tiara, who gets 6lb from those two rivals and must be noted, while Arnaud and Baily Green ensure this is a hugely competitive heat.
Zaidpour struggled in France in early summer, but Mullins has given him a break since then and he could prove too strong for his lesser-rated rivals Darwins Fox and Pittoni in the other Grade Two on the card, the Ladbrokes Ireland Lismullen Hurdle.
Mullins also saddles McKinley in the Grade Three 'For Auction' Novice Hurdle, but perhaps of greater interest is the champion trainer's brother Tom's Princely Conn.
The five-year-old's sole defeat in three starts this term came at the hands of the rapidly improving Sheamus and he was not hard pressed to score at Punchestown last time.
Willie Mullins has an interesting recruit in Uradel in the Join Navan Members 2015 3-Y-O Maiden Hurdle, as he won at Chantilly before running well in the Melrose at York on his debut for the handler.
Others of interest in the race, which gets the card under way at 12.20pm, are the former Jim Bolger runner Freedom Square and Pershing, who was not disgraced on his hurdling bow at Thurles.
Mullins' final chance on the card comes courtesy of classy hurdler Blood Cotil in the Crystalski.ie EBF Beginners Chase, though he has to atone for falling on his sole chase start last term.
The Ladbrokes On Course Ireland Handicap Hurdle is a competitive affair, with Nosey Box and Cool Oscar two of many with claims.
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