3:40 Punchestown Tips

Hearts And Spades was a prolific winner in points earlier this season and showed good potential when beaten just under 1 length in third on his maiden point debut at Cork last month. He should improve more from that and can win for last year's winning stable.

7yo irish gelding Last Round has won his 3rd last race a 14 runner Maiden Hunter Chase at Limerick. Ran creditably afterwards in two Hunter Chases and should be happy with the dryer ground than the testing one lto at Naas. Holds every chance to go close here.

Squire Ohara looks to have fair claims based on last season’s effort in this race, despite a slightly mixed recent profile. He was returning from a 70-day break when unseating in a point-to-point last time, so that run can be overlooked to an extent. Prior to that, his point form had been modest, but his run in a Hunters’ Chase over 3m was more encouraging ??' finishing 9th of 16, beaten 12½L in a race featuring strong opposition like Its On The Line, Fountain House and The Goffer. The key piece of form is his 2nd in this race last year at Punchestown Racecourse over 2m4f, where he was beaten 3¼L by Fountain House ??' a horse who has since gone on to win again at the festival this year. That gives him solid course and race form. The reapplication of the tongue tie could help, and yielding ground should suit based on past runs. If bouncing back to his best and building on last year’s performance, Squire Ohara looks capable of being involved.