The ground at Cork is now yielding to soft (both tracks) following 12mm of rain.

An eight-race Flat card is due to begin at the Mallow venue at 2.05 and the Listed Navigation Stakes, the feature race, has a 3.35 start time.

There's a dry weather forecast for a programme of large fields. Much interest will focus on the debut of Patrick Sarsfield for the Joseph O'Brien yard in the Buy Online At corkracecourse.ie Maiden.

Donnacha O'Brien will sport the Classic-winning silks of Chantal Regalado-Gonzalez on the son of Australia.

He made a promising start for Eddie Lynam with third and second placings in the second half of last season.

Patrick Sarsfield joined current connections for 230,000 guineas back in July.