Ante-post favourites You Oughta Know and Three Card Brag head 18 runners for the Guinness Kerry National.
The €200,000 event takes place at Listowel on Wednesday.
Willie Mullins’ You Oughta Know emerged as the leading contender for the event with a runaway 23-length win in a rated novice chase at Wexford a little over three weeks ago.
The champion trainer is also represented by the two-time chase winner Arctic Fly and the novice Spanish Harlem.
Gordon Elliott’s Three Card Brag is hoping to bounce back from a luckless run in the Tote Galway Plate. Elliott is also responsible for top-weight Pied Piper, with his team of four completed by Duffle Coat and Shecouldbeanything.
For the third year running, the race has attracted a runner from across the Irish Sea and taking his chance on his first start for Mickey Bowen is the nine-year-old Light N Strike.
Monbeg Park will have his first start for rookie trainer Jack Foley with French Dynamite another running for a new trainer, Eric McNamara, a three-time winner of the race.
Joseph O'Brien’s 2022 winner Busselton is the second reserve but the trainer will be represented by San Salvador, while the consistent Le Coq Hardi lines out for Henry de Bromhead who is also responsible for the first reserve, Nara.
Cheltenham Festival runner-up Anyway finished in front of You Ought Know when winning at Kilbeggan in June and is an intriguing contender, as is Padraig Roche’s Outside The Door following his wide-margin success last time.
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