Danny Mullins© Photo Healy Racing
Danny Mullins is enjoying his best season over jumps and, following a dream run last week, will be hoping to add to his tally at Tramore on Thursday.
The highlight of six winners last week was a treble shared with trainer John Ryan at Sligo, and he also partnered a double the following afternoon at Clonmel including a decisive victory on Dark Outsider
The James Dullea-trained gelding has been raised 8lb in future but can race under just a 4lb penalty in the Waterford & Tramore Racecourse Supporters Club Handicap Chase.
Davy Russell was in the news for all the wrong reasons at Clonmel but has since got back in the winning grove at Tipperary earlier this week, and will fancy his chance here on top-weight Fiddlers Bow
Mullins has four rides on the card, and the pick of his other mounts appears to be Father Jed in the Waterford & Tramore Racecourse On Facebook Handicap Hurdle.
The progressive five-year-old is on a hat-trick after scoring at Galway and Ballinrobe last month, although the good ground here could militate against his chance.
Glendine River, who scored twice at the Festival meeting here in August, rates a serious threat along with dual-purpose performer Lisa's Legacy Icelip has good prospects of gaining a third course and distance win in the two-mile Waterford & Tramore Racecourse Supporters Club Handicap Hurdle, while the in-form Gordon Elliott may have the answer in the bumper with Broken Soul
