1st - €45,000.00 2nd - €15,000.00 3rd - €7,500.00 4th - €3,750.00 5th - €2,250.00 6th - €1,500.00

FormscanBy Michael Graham - BLIZZARD OF OZ looks a likely sort for Willie Mullins and Paul Townend. The form of his latest victory in Leopardstown was emphatically franked when the horse in fourth came out and landed a Fairyhouse Grade 2 novice hurdle by a wide margin. Answer To Kayf emerged from Cheltenham with credit from a staying-on fourth in the Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys' Handicap Hurdle. He enjoyed a similar trip when delivering in Naas and his rating of 138 entitles him to be heavily involved. Backtonormal has form behind both Blizzard Of Oz and Answer To Kayf and has since switched stables to in-form Gavin Cromwell.

A novice hurdle for four years old and upwards that are EBF eligible and which had been purchased as an unraced three or four year old at Public Auction under the hammer in Ireland or Great Britain for #45,000 or less at a recognised National Hunt Store Sale and that have not been purchased at Public Auction under the hammer in Ireland or Great Britain for any more than #45,000 at any time and which, in the current season, have run in or been balloted from at least one qualifier race in the Connolly's RED MILLS Irish EBF Auction Hurdle Series and which have not, at any time, won a Listed or weight-for-age Grade 1, 2 or 3 Hurdle race or which have not, at any time, won a Listed or Grade 1, 2, or 3 I.N.H. flat race or N.H. flat race
Weights - 4-y-o 11st 1lbs 5-y-o and up 11st 7lbs Mares allowed 7lbs
Penalties - Winner of a hurdle race 5lb extra Of two or more hurdle races 7lb extra