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Preview limerick 20th Apr

With Friday's Kilbeggan card cancelled, Limerick steps into the breach and Ballela Boy attempts to supplement his breakthrough fencing success in the www.limerickraces.ie Handicap Chase.

Gordon Elliott's charge took 10 goes to get off the mark in this sphere but he held his own in decent company and gained just reward at Thurles last month.

He remains well treated compared to his timber rating, and he takes on Bilbo Bagins, Attalco and Concordin, who all contributed to the drama in an eventful finish to a handicap chase on the same Thurles card.

Elliott switches Moonlight Escape's attentions to the bigger obstacles in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Mares Beginners Chase.

The five-year-old picked up plenty of minor honours prior to breaking her hurdles duck at Cork over Easter, and her pedigree suggests that she will come into own at this discipline.

The action gets under way at 4.30 with the Follow Limerick On Facebook Maiden Hurdle, and Elliott runs two.

Isle Of Destiny cost 78,000 euros after finishing second in a point-to-point last year, but the chief hope for the stable looks to be last-start Down Royal runner-up Falak.

Once again, Elliott appears to hold the strongest hand in the Follow Limerick On Twitter Maiden Hurdle because Kuraka made the frame behind some of the best juveniles around earlier in the campaign, and also picked up prize money on the Flat at Dundalk most recently.

Wild Sam has gone close on each of his four starts this season, and trainer Stephen Ryan will be hoping his turn has finally come in the Panoramic Restaurant Handicap Hurdle.

Cowboy Des Long chased home Ballela Boy at Thurles and reverts to timber for the Patrickswell Handicap Hurdle, while Elliott's Extrapolate takes on a Willie Mullins duo in the Twilight Racing 2018 Flat Race.