It's an action-packed Bank Holiday Monday, and the showpiece event of the day is the Irish Grand National. With 10 live races, from three different meetings, shown on ITV, Rory Paddock covers them all. 14:35 PLUMPTON Secret Des Dieux steps into open handicap company on the back of consecutive novice handicap wins and a 9lb rise may not be enough to halt his progress. The six-year-old remains open to improvement and should be firmly in the mix. Kotmask is feared most. A previ

Matt Polley tipped a 66/1 winner at last weeks Cheltenham festival and he returns to give his best bets for Monday. 16:00 FFOS LAS El Rojo Grande is having a great season. He’s always looked like this step up in trip would be beneficial, but it’s not guaranteed. Boston Joe has some decent form here. If you forgive his latest start at Chepstow, he would have a chance. Port Or Starboard is the choice. He looks like he’s running into form after a promising run last time, and his

Matt Polley finds two runners worth backing to kick start the week. 15:45 PLUMPTON Junior Des Mottes will be popular, especially with his small yard in excellent form, however, Fakenham form sometimes can be misleading. Glengolly bolted in at Hereford two starts ago, and if you can forgive his latest run in deep ground, he’d have a squeak. Minella Kaiser looks every inch a chaser, but it hasn’t quite worked out for him. He’s a dour stayer and hopefully the quicker tempo of

Matt Polley previews the action on Monday with his best bets of the day. 16:15 PLUMPTON Little Wren will likely be all the rage here after winning comfortably at Fakenham last time. Impossible to say she can’t follow up here off a basement mark, but it’s a different test. Minella Kaiser is open to a lot of improvement. He’s a big horse, who has taken a while to get going, hence only five runs to date. He looks an out and out stayer, and that could be what’s required here. MIN

It's the Irish Grand National that takes centre stage on Easter Monday and with a total of nine races shown live on ITV we preview them all. 14:35 PLUMPTON The Skelton v Mullins battle for the trainers championship is close to completion and as such Willie Mullins will be hoping Westport Cove can go well to keep the yards championship hopes alive. That being said 'Team Skelton' have Asta La Pasta to ensure the title goes their way. Both runners have clear chances but it's Ted

Michael Taylor looks to the action from Kempton and Plumpton this Monday as he tries to beat the bookies this bank holiday. Read more

Tom Bates goes around the courses this Monday and finds a quartet of selections he expects to go close.

Pundit Tom Bates likes a few runners this Monday with selections from Plumpton and Wolverhampton. Find out who he's backing right here.

Pundit Michael Taylor looks at the best of Monday's action and picks out one from Plumpton and one from Wolverhampton he's keen to get on!

14:50 Leopardstown Dermot Weld has won this race three times in the last ten years and sends Titanium Sky to this race, just six days after finishing sixth of ten in a Group 3 at The Curragh last weekend. She wasn’t disgraced, finishing less than three lengths behind the winner, but for me it looks a tough ask to improve enough to take this less than a week after her last run. Hamariyna finished four lengths behind Titanium Sky when third on debut but improved to win next tim

14:50 Fairyhouse Willie Mullins has won this race four times in the last six years, with Annie Power and Laurina amongst those winners, and saddles seven of the seventeen runners this time around. Jockey bookings would suggest that Eglantine Du Seuil, a 50/1 winner of the Mares Novice Hurdle at Cheltenham in March, is the pick of the bunch and the way she stayed on strongly up the Prestbury Park hill suggests the extra distance she encounters today shouldn’t be a problem. Tha

12:40 Plumpton This race looks between the two at the top of the weights and likely to be at the head of the markets. Brandon Castle put in a taking performance when winning on hurdles debut over course and distance last month, battling well to beat an odds-on shot and pulling over twenty lengths clear of third in the process. His trainer Neil King had four winners from eleven runners at the course in 2018 and based on the evidence of his runners’ aforementioned victory he lo

15:05 Plumpton Finnegan’s Garden won this race in 2017, one of two course and distance victories last season, and is partnered with Noel Fehily who was on board for one of these wins and boasts a 44% winning strike rate in the last three years over fences at the course. With conditions to suit he can gain another victory here today. The most likely to put up a challenge is Chivers who has winning form in soft ground on the flat and gave the impression he would improve for the

15:05 PLUMPTON Morney Wing has a point to prove having refused to race last time out, although won on only previous visit to Plumpton and has the services of Paddy Brennan in the saddle, a jockey with an excellent strike rate at the course. Themanfrom Minella brings decent form in to the race, having placed on penultimate run before winning last time out, although has to carry an extra 8lbs today which will undoubtedly make things tougher. Frank N Fair won twice ove

RACE PREVIEW SELECTION (Click Here) RACE PREVIEW KEMPTON 13:50 – (BET OF THE DAY) The ladies take centre stage in this fillies maiden contest, the second contest on the card at Kempton. There’s a trio of newcomers who are taking their first step into the racing world but unfortunately none of them look remotely close to world beaters on paper and minor roles are their likely fortunes this afternoon. Cape To Cuba has been very consistent with four placed efforts in six star