From fast to feast: Fairyhouse warms up for three days of top jumps action

After the traditional Good Friday fast, Irish racing returns for its Easter bonanza with a couple of relatively low-key appetisers ahead of the feast that is to come over the next couple of days.

Fairyhouse and Cork welcome the return of racegoers for two of their flagship occasions, both with highly competitive cards to get their respective three-day festivities under way.

Willie Mullins and Gordon Elliott are responsible for 11 of the 20 runners in Fairyhouse's featured €100,000 Rybo Handicap Hurdle, while Aintree hero Emmet Mullins will try to plunder another National when he and his sidekick Paul Byrne combine with Maxine O'Sullivan for Rightplacerightime in the novel ladies' version.