Leopardstown Preview:Sky's The Limit can round off some unfinished business with Wednesday's featured Durkan New Homes Novice Chase at Leopardstown and provide a grey shine to the St Stephen's Day festivities at the South Dublin track.

Since only four runners line up for the €120,000 home holiday feature, there will be no problems for the huge crowds in identifying Sky's The Limit, although Edward O'Grady's almost white-coloured runner would stand out in any field.

However, the question of whether he would ever stand out as a potential top-flight steeplechaser looked to be questionable at this time last year when the third of three starts over fences yielded a disappointing sixth in this race behind Schindlers Hunt.

As a result O'Grady pulled the plug on the horse over the bigger obstacles which was a serious disappointment for an animal that was able to dot up under a big weight in the Coral Cup at the 2006 Cheltenham Festival.

Two runs this season, however, have proved the wheels are very much back on Sky's The Limit's chasing career. An easy win at Cork was followed up with a Grade One triumph in the Drinmore at Fairyhouse earlier this month when he proved his versatility with ground by beating Be My Leader on a heavy surface.

O'Grady has chosen Wednesday's race rather than Friday's three-mile option for a Grade One follow-up and circumstances look to have fallen in his favour.

Both Lenrey and Scotsirish look well held on their balance of form while Perce Rock has always given the impression of being happier on a softer surface than he is likely to get this week.

There was undoubtedly a lot to like about Perce Rock's chasing debut at Navan but conditions will be very different now - he drops to two miles and he's facing a very different proposition in Sky's The Limit.

The day's other Grade One contest is a much more competitive looking contest and although Temlett will have to break his jumping duck to come out on top, the Willie Mullins runner still has the look of a winner.

Mullins also has Sonnium in the race who boasts a Thurles win. But he was stones inferior to Temlett on the flat and the very different ground conditions on offer now should see Temlett in a much more positive light than at Clonmel on his hurdling debut.

Both he and Indian Spring got turned over that day in heavy conditions but Leopardstown's unseasonal surface should bring their proven flat speed much more into play. Davy Condon nursed Temlett at Clonmel but an Ulster Derby win last summer indicates that the horse won't mind a scrap.

He's likely to get it too with some decent proven form represented and also an intriguing newcomer in the shape of The Ethiopian, a full-brother to the double-Derby and double-Breeders' Cup winner High Chaparral, who won for Aidan O'Brien at Galway last summer.

However, Temlett was better than him on the flat and now he can prove better than these over jumps.

There is another intriguing flat convert running in the opening maiden hurdle as Dermot Weld pitches Bellamy Cay in against some decent maidens including the O'Grady-trained Tranquil Sea.

The ex-Juddmonte-owned prospect was a Group Two winner in France for Andre Fabre and only narrowly missed out on winning the Group Prix Royal Oak. That form encouraged Weld to buy him as a possible Melbourne Cup contender but some less than inspiring flat appearances here scuttled that idea.

Weld, however, reports that Bellamy Cay has schooled well and there should be sufficient class remaining from his flat days to make him a threat.

Edward O'Grady is strongly represented throughout the card and now that Shazand has got off the mark over jumps, he could be one to stick with in the two and a quarter mile handicap hurdle.

The ex-French runner put in some encouraging performances as a juvenile hurdler last season and even did enough in defeat to justify a trip to the Cheltenham Festival. In the circumstances, it's something of a surprise that it took until his last start at Gowran for Shazand to get off the mark over jumps. But his confidence must have been boosted by that and with the O'Grady team in form, Andrew McNamara's mount is worth checking out.

Peplum is the O'Grady runner in the second maiden hurdle but the balance of that one's form in France doesn't look too strong. In the circumstances Taravada looks a safer option.

The Real Project boasts a good third on his Fairyhouse debut but those looking for a "get out" winner will also be watching Noel Meade's newcomer Go Native.