Johnny Ward's horse racing tips: My best bets at Naas on Sunday

Some of the best staying novice chasers in Ireland, with the exceptions of Galopin Des Champs, Capodanno and Fury Road, head to Naas for an absorbing Grade Three to kick off proceedings.

I think the 14-1 available about another novice chaser looks far too big, while there's another at long odds in a handicap hurdle later.

Be lucky, and don't forget to watch every race live on Racing TV.

This Perugino-bred was hardly given an easy time of it at Limerick on his handicap chase debut as he was chucked straight into the traditionally hot Tim Duggan Memorial Handicap Chase.

He started off in last place but had improved quite markedly with a circuit to go. The ground was horrible there and, given his best hurdles form was at summer tracks, it's hard to know if he liked it.

All told, there were ample positives in finishing fifth, and for an inexperienced horse, he showed an aptitude to jump, whilst still seeming raw at times.

This seven-year-old has smart hurdles form and there's obvious upside, given his chase mark.

Cafe Con Leche looks the each-way value here, for all that Womalko was so well-backed at Limerick he could win again. Essentially a miler on the Flat for Denis Hogan, the trip did not suit on his stable debut last time but, having little cover, he shaped very well for around two miles of that contest.

Keith Donoghue is aboard here and his mount looks intriguing back over two miles on ground unusually quick for late January.

Apart from a hopeless task on his jumps debut in a Grade Three, his record for Hogan hurdling was two wins and two thirds from seven starts, and the pick of his form renders him very interesting off today's rating.

The shrewd Smith yard, also represented by the possible pace in the race in Bigz Belief, had a gambled-on third with their last handicap hurdle runner, Endlessly, last weekend at Navan.