11.33 Irish Stallion Farms EBF Academy Hurdle 2m 1f

There were plenty of positives to take from what Ritz Plan showed when second to ready winner Highland Crystal in another race in this series last month at Punchestown, and she ought to take some beating with that experience behind her. The winner has franked the form in no uncertain terms by winning readily at Newbury in a listed mares’ hurdle and Joseph O’Brien’s filly has the pedigree to be useful, as a half-sister to Gordon Elliott’s Ladbroke Handicap Hurdle winner/Galway Hurdle second/Coral Cup third Bayan (and Group 3 Horris Hill Stakes winner Nebo).