MICHAEL Halford and Shane Foley team up with likely winner Castle Guest in the featured Ryan & Co Accountants Handicap at Navan today.

Castle Guest has proved a great servant to connections winning six times on the flat, all at around this 10-furlong trip and now races off a 4lb lower mark than when last victorious at Leopardstown last summer.

The seven-year-old gelding should have been freshened up nicely following a recent run over hurdles at Punchestown.

The Ice Meister has also slipped down the ratings and the Ger Lyons-trained gelding could prove an interesting rival stepping up to this trip for the first time.

In the opening Merryn Lacy EBF Median Auction Maiden Magnification looks good after an excellent debut at the Curragh last Sunday when beating all bar Van Der Decken, while Lyons looks set to provide the danger again with Medicine Jack.

Lustrous Light looks the one to beat in the KL Construction Maiden again for Ger Lyons. The Galileo half-brother to Phoenix Stakes winner Alfred Nobel cost 310,000 guineas as a yearling, and got his career off to a promising start when finishing strongly over this course and distance just under a fortnight ago.

Sing For Me is another choicely bred runner on show at Navan, and the Galileo full-sister to four winners should go close for David Wachman in the Follow Tom’s Walking Wish On Facebook Handicap.

Her sibling’s include Group 3 winner Quest For Peace and Bantry Bay, an unlucky loser in the the Queen’s Vase at Royal Ascot last year, so this step up to 10 furlongs and better ground must be a plus.

The Velstone Work Surface Handicap has been divided, and Gordon Elliott could well land both races with Seeyouallincoppers and Ibsen.

Seeyouallincoppers comes here off the back of a deserved win over hurdles at Cork earlier this month, while Ibsen is another in-form dual purpose horse.