Navan

Rated 70 (2nd highest in the field) but winless from four races with just one place finish — the ratings and recent form (7-4) don't match, suggesting either the rating is generous or Best Love has been running in tougher company than this. Draw 3 is a small plus on a track where low draws win 10% of the time.

A racecourse debut with solid pedigree behind him — by Nando Parrado out of a Dawn Approach mare, which suggests natural speed for this 5-furlong sprint. Noel Meade's yard is in form (42 winners already this season) and Colin Keane is a reliable pilot, but first-timers are always unpredictable.

The only horse in this field with multiple place finishes (three from six races), Bit Of A Buzz has been second twice and third twice — consistency that says a first win is coming soon rather than never. The 2.72 odds suggest the market still believes, even though the form reads 344432 rather than a breakthrough.

A debutant by Saxon Warrior (a sire of fast, precocious two-year-olds) out of a Kodiac mare — the pedigree for sprint speed is there and W McCreery clearly rates her. Draw 11 is the high draw on this course, where the bias favours lower numbers, but she's worth watching as a wild card.