Baie Des Iles topweight in Tim Duggan Ross O'Sullivan will be hoping the decision to forgo a second crack at the Welsh National with Baie Des Iles will pay off in the Tim Duggan Memorial Chase at Limerick. The grey mare finished a fair fifth in the Chepstow marathon as a five-year-old yet, despite being a year older, connections have decided to stay closer to home this Christmas. She will be carrying top weight under O'Sullivan's wife Katie Walsh, but she still has plenty of improvement in her with youth on her side. Those comments also apply to Edward O'Grady's The West's Awake, owned by John Magnier, who turns seven next week. A winner of three of his four races over fences, this represents a step up in grade but he is certainly going the right way. Liam Burke's Sumos Novios is lightly raced but on his third-placed finish in the Leinster National, he has claims. Paul Nolan's Fine Theatre and Conor O'Dwyer's Go Darsi Go are others to consider. Elsewhere on the card, Willie Mullins' Sympa Des Flos will attempt to go one better than in all four lifetime starts to date in the two-mile-six maiden hurdle, while the champion trainer introduces Cut The Mustard in the mares' maiden hurdle.
