Nap of the Day: Theatre can put on a show at Thurles

After a hectic Cheltenham Festival, it's right back to Nap of the Day duty for our horse racing tipster Owen McMahon, who fancies one across the Irish Sea for a team in form.

After a couple of quiet months, Henry de Bromhead's horses are going great guns at the moment.

The Knockeen handler has enjoyed five winners in the past fortnight, including Air Of Entitlement and Bob Olinger at the Cheltenham Festival, and pretty much everything he's sending out is at least running to form.

That's a good omen for THEATRE NATIVE, who has strong claims for the mares' beginners' chase that opens the card at Thurles on Saturday.

The seven-year-old daughter of Getaway had a lofty reputation as a younger horse, but she was ultimately very disappointing in a bumper and then over hurdles. She won a maiden in good style, but that was all she achieved in that discipline.

However, since going chasing this season she's very much come into her own. She was third behind Gavin Cromwell's Only By Night, who was chinned by Jango Baie in the Arkle at Cheltenham on Tuesday, on debut at Tipperary in November before finishing runner-up to the progressive Springt De La Mare at Fairyhouse in mid-January.

That rival, also trained by Cromwell, franked the form by giving weight and a bating to a couple of Willie Mullins geldings at Punchestown last month.

I don't think she faces anything of that calibre here. Ownermate Miss Manzor, for the Gold Cup-winning duo Mullins/Townend, looks the biggest danger after her fourth at Fairyhouse over a month ago, but she needs improvement to match the selection's latest effort, let alone an improved one.

A Law Of Her Own has bits of form that give her a chance here, but she hasn't been in the best form of late - while Goodie Two Shoes, Media Naranja, Eve's Hope and Lep Around are all hard to advise.

Theatre Native boasts the best bit of recent form, remains open to significant improvement and goes for a team in great form. What's not to like?

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