Sunday tips: Angus McNae has four bets at Naas

After a good effort when second here last time out, Kalix Delabarriere looks like he is ready to shed his maiden tag. 

That was a much better effort than he produced on his debut over hurdles and he seemed well suited by the testing conditions that he will encounter once again here. 

He wears a tongue tie and sports a hood for the first time, and I expect him to take a step forward plus win this for Paul Townend and Willie Mullins. 

American Money won this race last year and can repeat the trick again. 

He has won twice at this track and returns to hurdling after a spell chasing, while all the evidence from his career suggests he is a better hurdler than chaser. 

Over fences last time at this track he shaped better than the bare result having suffered a wide, ground-losing trip, and it may be that this race has been the target for a while. 

He looks sure to go well. 

This useful chaser returns to hurdles on a handy mark. He races off a mark that is 16lb lower than the one he raced off last time out when finishing sixth in the Coral Gold Cup at Newbury. 

He also recorded a win at Cheltenham over fences last year off a rating of 142 and is able to race here off 135. 

He has some decent novice hurdle form to his name and has been given a decent chance by the handicapper. 

The return to two miles looks sure to suit this strong-travelling sort who returned from a nine-month absence with a decent effort at Thurles last time out behind stable companion Appreciate It. 

He was still in contention turning for home, but did not see out the two and a half mile trip. With that run behind him, and the drop in trip, he looks sure to go well here in a race that is not as strong as some that he has contested before.