Tramore gets its oar into the festival circuit for four days beginning this evening, and the rising amateur star Paul Moloney looks one rider for punters to stay on the right side of.

He takes the mount on Christy Roche's Bay Magic in the opening amateur maiden hurdle, but in the £10,000 Noel Griffin Memorial Handicap he teams up with a very interesting contender in Quinze.

Pat Hughes' five-year-old matured into a top novice hurdler last winter but almost didn't get to see another one, as he was a very sick horse earlier this summer. An ultra impressive length and a half defeat of Cohiba over 12 furlongs at the Galway festival heralded his return to full health, and he was confidently expected to follow up at Roscommon a number of days later. Quinze, however, was taken out of that apparently easy option due to a reported allergy.

Given a clean bill of health tonight, he looks to have a good chance in this valuable contest. A formidable opponent will be the Galway Hurdle winner, Black Queen, who is due to get 2lb from Quinze. She is rated Quinze's superior on the flat but her style of racing leaves her open to traffic problems, and judged by the form he showed at Galway, Quinze is still an improving horse.

Bay Magic was just beaten by Monteba at Cork last time and is preferred to the Naas bumper winner, Macon Express; while Moloney could also figure in the bumper with Pat Flynn's newcomer, Simply Sal. However, Rainbow Tour's proven, if relatively modest, form could make him a safer option. Paddy Mullins's Brushetta was a flat winner at Wexford on Saturday, beating Miroswaki by the three-quarters of a length, but reverts to flights for the O'Neills Handicap Hurdle.