Star hurdler Ned Kelly is expected to run at the Down Royal Festival of Racing on Friday.
Trained by Edward O'Grady, Ned Kelly has been entered for the IR£18,000 Anglo Irish Bank hurdle over two miles.
O'Grady said: "The possibility is that he will run. I'm hoping to get Norman Williamson to ride."
Ned Kelly won six hurdle races last season and is expected to be a leading candidate in the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham next March.
Also entered in the Down Royal race is the Willie Mullins-trained Joe Cullen who won the Champion Bumper at Cheltenham in 2000 when Ned Kelly was second.
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