COURSE specialist Trassey Bridge will be difficult to beat in the M Reilly Mitsubishi Connaught National Handicap Chase at Sligo this evening if reproducing her fine third to Boro Vacation and Minister For Fun at Wexford last month.

Before that effort, Jim Dreaper's Strong Gale mare was a course and distance winner over this evening's track, conceding 19lb to Timely Affair and beating that rival by half a length.

Leggagh Lady could prove the answer to a triky Sligo Park Hotel Handicap. Pat Flynn's five year old went down by a length to Nameloc at Tipperary last time but was trying to give the winner 7lb. She can now take the measure of Wexford winner Maid To Move.

Kevin Prendergast can do no wrong at the moment and Iktidar, fourth of 10 behind Matangi at Roscommon, is given the vote in the Beltra Maiden.

Aidan O'Brien, who is looking forward to saddling his first runners in Sunday's Irish Derby, should land the Grange INH Flat Race with Phardubh.