Trainer won this race last year with Darasso and will be looking to make another success of this contest here as he beat the Gordon Elliot trained Saint Felicien by 3 1/4 lengths last term.
This 10-year-old certainly cannot be ruled out, but he is carrying a top weight of 11-12 and faces a couple of younger horses in this year's renewal of the Grade 3 Limestone Lad Hurdle.
He has placed in a few of his last runs where he ran in bigger fields than this but did bounce back to form when winning last time out at Thurles in a Class 1 Listed event.
Got the better of Escaria Ten by 2 lengths and if carrying on that sort of form it should see him go close once more in this.