On The Fringe lines up in the Hunters Chase © Photo Healy Racing
Punchestown hero On The Fringe returns to action in the Dan Linehan's Bar And B&B Hunters Chase on the second day of the Killarney Festival.
The Enda Bolger-trained nine-year-old was third at Cheltenham to Tammys Hill before bolting up by 20 lengths at Punchestown.
Bolger said: "He has come out of Punchestown in good form and we are letting him take his chance because of the rain that came at Killarney, he will like a cut in the ground."
Terence O'Brien is double-handed as he goes for a big win in the McSweeney Arms Hotel Killarney National Handicap.
The Cork handler runs both Punchestown second She's Got Grit and Glenquest in the 30,000 euro contest.
O'Brien said: "She came out of Punchestown fine, I suppose it is probably her last chance to run for a while, she had been off for a couple of months before Punchestown and hopefully she is still fresh now.
"We are hoping the ground will soften up a bit and it probably will.
"She seems fine and she is in good form, she has gone up 6lb but we'd be hopeful enough that she will be there or thereabouts."
Glenquest fell at Punchestown, and O'Brien said: "He was in great form and we were hopeful of a big run in Punchestown, but for the first time in 22 runs over fences he fell. I'm not really sure what went wrong but he seems fine since and he is well in himself.
"There aren't too many chances for a horse who wants a bit of a cut in the ground from now on, so we are letting him take his chance as well." Miss Pepperpot bids to win the race for the second year running, and in its first incarnation as the Killarney National.
The Winged Love mare races of a 5lb lower mark this time around after enduring mixed fortunes since her success 12 months ago.
Elsewhere on the seven-raced card, Fairyhouse bumper winner Martello Tower returns to timber in the Ross Golf Course Maiden Hurdle.
Mags Mullins' Barry Connell-owned six-year-old has had just the one run over hurdles, finishing a creditable fourth in a Listed event at Naas in March.
Mullins said of her lightly-raced gelding: "He is in good order, he came out of his last run well, and I'm hopeful that he will run well.
"The experience of the run over hurdles should stand to him and he won a point-to-point as well."
