APPLE’S JADE is odds-on across the board for the Mares’ Hurdle after 33 entries were revealed for the two-and-a-half mile race on Thursday.

Last year’s winner has already added another two Grade 1 wins to her CV this season with wins in the Hatton’s Grace Hurdle at Fairyhouse and, more recently, over three miles in the Christmas Hurdle at Leopardstown. There have been calls for her to stay at three miles and go for the Stayers’ Hurdle but both Gordon Elliott and Gigginstown House Stud are keen to go back for this race.