What Lies Ahead bids to go one better The concluding Family Saturday At The Festival Flat Race for four-year-olds, has the smallest field of the day at Punchestown with just six of them going to post. Experience can count for a lot in this sort of contest and What Lies Ahead has a close second placing from Leopardstown on Boylesports.com Hurdle Day to her name. Jane Mangan rode the Saffron Walden filly then and she's in the plate again now. It was only a Willie Mullins runner, Aminabad, that upstaged the attractive chestnut on that occasion. Willie McCreery, trains What Lies Ahead and he commented: "I'd have to be hopeful if she handles the ground. It's very heavy for her but it'll be heavy for them all. The whole race-meeting is over the same track so you'd be worried about that too, but what can you do. "Our one is a grand, good-looking filly. "The horse that was fourth (Railway Rule) was second up in Down Royal in another four-year-old bumper since. We finished in front of Gordon's (Elliott's Iffjack, re-opposes now) at Leopardstown too." Dessie Hughes' Flight Plan also has a run to his name and he now reverts from maiden hurdle company. That effort saw the gelding, who also runs in Hughes' own colours, finish a more than respectable fifth behind Sea Beat at Naas. Johnny King takes the mount on this occasion. Of the first-timers perhaps Henry De Bromhead's Motown Bob will emerge as a prominent player. He carries the Grade 1 winning silks of Special Tiara, those of Mrs Sally Roley-Williams.
