Navan PreviewNavan's all-Flat card can provide some useful hints for the winter ahead with both Al Eile and Victram taking their chances at the Co Meath track this afternoon.
Victram, last season's Imperial Cup winner, has won the €25,000 10-furlong handicap at Navan in the last two years and boasts a 100 rating for his second run back after a summer break.
Al Eile, fourth to Brave Inca in the Champion Hurdle, and a former Aintree Hurdle winner, is already one of the market leaders in some books for the Arkle Trophy at Cheltenham and will be having a first outing since April.
Both, however, have big tasks in the prevailing conditions though and could have to give best to the three-year-old Laywaan who is 9lb higher in the handicap for winning over the course and distance last week.
Aidan O'Brien runs four in the mile juvenile maiden and although Anton Chekov boasts a Cork third on his debut, it's significant that Seamus Heffernan is on board the newcomer Macarthur.
Heffernan won the race with another son of Montjeu in the form of Listed-winner Mountain last year and the stable's juveniles are currently in flying form.
Charles O'Brien saddled a promising juvenile winner at the Curragh on Monday and Michael Kinane can steer the Naas runner-up Sheer Silk home in front in the opener
The in-form Attercliffe, meanwhile, should follow up an impressive Roscommon success in the last.
