The Champion Hurdle winners Brave Inca and Hardy Eustace are scheduled to appear at Leopardstown's post-race gallops session tomorrow although ground conditions could yet alter plans.

With the going already testing at the Dublin track, more rain is expected tomorrow and Dessie Hughes has indicated he won't risk Hardy Eustace on a bog-like surface. The pre-festival workout has been a feature of Hardy Eustace's preparation before each of his four appearances at Cheltenham to date but Hughes will not be too bothered if the pattern is broken this time.

"The plan at the moment is to go on Sunday but there is heavy rain around at the moment and if it turns into a bog, I don't think we will take him," the Curragh trainer said yesterday.

"It wouldn't be a problem if he missed it. He has his work done and it's really a case that we have been going there over the years," added Hughes who would also like to give the former Pertemps winner, Oulart, a workout if possible.

Brave Inca has also taken in the Leopardstown opportunity before each of his three previous Cheltenham appearances but the large crowd that usually waits after racing may have particular interest this time to see if they can identify the horse's likely festival partner.

"We won't do much with him at Leopardstown. It's just a case of getting away for a day with him," said his trainer Colm Murphy.

Edward O'Grady intends to send his leading novice hurdlers, Catch Me and Clopf, for a gallop but Noel Meade may bypass the session with his stable stars.

Willie Mullins is another to have extensively used the track for his festival horses in the past and with four possible runners in the Weatherbys Champion Bumper, a race Mullins has dominated with five previous winners, he could take the opportunity again to provide his young horses with some racecourse experience.

Leopardstown's manager Tom Burke reported yesterday: "Up to today, we have only about 20 horses coming to us but that usually changes over the weekend and I would imagine we would have something similar to last year when 40 horses worked after racing.

"It's supposed to be dry on Friday night and Saturday but there is rain forecast for Sunday. We will have to wait and see but conditions will be testing."

That will put particular demands on the horses actually racing and the most interesting of them could be in the concluding bumper where Judge Roy Bean will have his second start.

The first of them yielded a Punchestown victory last month that was impressive enough for him to be a general 16 to 1 shot for the Weatherbys Champion Bumper on Wednesday week.

Edward O'Grady's horse has to concede weight all round, including to Deal Maker who was third to the highly-rated Sergheyev on his debut, but will still be fancied to keep his unbeaten record.

The most valuable race is the €53,000 Mick Holly Handicap Chase where a stamina test would be ideal for the ex-Robert Tyner-trained Slim Pickings who ran a decent race for Tom Taaffe in the Thyestes in January until falling at the last.

Taaffe may also be the one to follow in the novice chase with In The High Grass who got touched off in a handicap here on his last start and now has Ruby Walsh on his back.