RACING: The start of evening action is a sure sign of a busy racing calendar to come and just to reinforce the point there are two Irish fixtures today.

Ballinrobe has a seven-race card starting at 5.15 but Tipperary's eight-race fixture gets under way at 5 p.m. and features the €23,500 added Gowla Power-Pak Chase.

"We have the earliest and the latest!" declared the Tipperary manager Peter Roe who reported "no question marks" over the meeting going ahead.

"The ground here is heavy but in such a way that if we get a bit of rain it will be soft. At the moment it's more holding than heavy," he said.

Such a surface will hardly be ideal for the newcomer Haydn in the opener and maybe Wathab's experience could be crucial in the circumstances.

Kevin Prendergast may later double up with Storm Pearl who ran on Monday.

Michael Kinane travels south for the Haydn ride but his best chance could come for Paddy Mullins in the mile and a half handicap. His mount Yukon is proven on testing conditions.

Another proven on the ground is the Jim Bolger-trained three-year-old Fluirseach who got home by a short head on testing conditions at Leopardstown last autumn.

Heezapistol gets some weight from Native Scout in the feature conditions chase and while the latter hasn't run since Cheltenham, the Arkle runner-up still looks a better option.

At Ballinrobe where the going is described as soft, the two-year-old contest is better contested numerically but James Burns could provide the answer with Mrs St George.

This one was only three lengths off Miss Childrey at Cork on her debut and should come on for that.

Dungarvan is a Sadler's Wells newcomer in the nine furlong maiden but Drift Away's fifth of 27 to the French Guineas hope Dalcassian reads pretty well for a race like this.

Irish Empire can continue Michael Grassicks's good run in the novice hurdle.