The JNwine.com Champion Chase is the highlight of Down Royal's calendar and has attracted a suitably top-class field, headed by Our Duke.

The Grade One-winning novice chaser signed off last season with an emphatic success in the Irish Grand National and reappears for Jessica Harrington.

Road To Respect is a fellow top level novice chaser last year who has won this season so has race fitness on his side, while veteran high-class chaser Carlingford Lough should be fitter for a recent run.

The classy action doesn't stop with that race, as the MyCarNeedsA.com Chase pits a number of potential superstars against one another.

A Toi Phil got back to winning ways in a Grade Two last time, while Barry Geraghty rides Enda Bolger's promising Ballyoisin ahead of the other JP McManus-owned horse, Tony Martin's Anibale Fly, who was second to the reopposing Disko in Grade One company when last seen.

If that action is not enough, then the valuable Billecart-Salmon Handicap Hurdle adds further lustre to the meeting and sees Geraghty choose Joseph O'Brien's Housesofparliament ahead of three other McManus runners.

Ruby Walsh partners Golden Spear for Martin in the handicap, while top weight Wakea and Shane Nolan's Charlie Stout bid to build on recent second-placed finishes.

The meeting kicks off at 12.45 with the Value Cabs 3-Y-O Hurdle, which sees Gavin Cromwell's unbeaten Espoir D'Allen take on O'Brien's Thurles scorer Apparition and Martin's duo of Acclamatio and Fullmoon In Paris.

The Tayto Group Maiden Hurdle has been chosen by O'Brien to give dual bumper winner Tower Bridge his first taste of jumping, where Elliott has a pair of interesting newcomers in Suitor and Falak.

Elliott has the bang-in-form Poormans Hill near the bottom of the weights of the Rainbow Communications Handicap Chase as he goes in search four-timer, while First Approach and Peace Party are likely candidates for the Daily Mirror Flat Race.