Following the comfortable victory of Go Native in the Grade 2 Hurdle at Tipperary this afternoon, trainer Noel Meade outlined plans for a number of his stable stars.
The Navan handler hopes to keep his better two mile hurdlers apart in the early part of the season and, with Go Native being aimed at a race for second season novices at Down Royal, Muirhead could reappear in the Morgiana Hurdle at Punchestown.
In the novice chasing category, Meade has plenty to look forward to with the likes of Pandorama, Jered and Harchibald.
Point-to-point winner Pandorama will wait for soft ground but is viewed as an exciting staying prospect by his handler while Jered, also a Grade 1 winning novice over hurdles, is 'jumping well and will be out in the near future'.
Harchibald, twice winner of both the Fighting Fifth at Newcastle and Kempton's Christmas Hurdle, is another high-class hurdler from the yard to switch his attention to fences and 'has schooled well'. The ten-year-old is entered in a two miles beginners chase at Tipperary on Tuesday and could run if the ground remains good.
