Our tips and preview ahead of the Wexford races on Thursday

Wexford hosts a second consecutive day of racing on Thursday with a bumper eight-race Jumps card at the track..

Racing will kick off at 4.25pm with a cracking field of 17 set to take on the maiden hurdle over the extended two-mile trip before the card comes to a close at 8.05pm with another full field contest over two miles in the bumper.

Read below to find out the best tips on Thursday’s card at Wexford courtesy of BoyleSports, who will also be offering the latest Galway Festival odds later this month.

The opener (4.25) looks set to have a full field of 17 to take on the two-mile maiden hurdle. Henry De Bromhead has a good record in this race and sends Lieber Nic to Wexford with top jockey Rachael Blackmore on board, so is expected to figure prominently in the first race of the day. Sunchart was a previous winner on the Flat for trainer Andrew Slattery and has hit the frame in two starts over hurdles so rates as the obvious danger.

Race two on the card (5.00) sees reigning champion jockey Jack Kennedy take the mount on the Gordon Elliott-trained Gers Gigi, a previous bumper winner and a third last time out 19 days ago. The three-year-old heads over obstacles for the first time here in the two-mile and four furlong novice contest and very much looks the one to beat.

The two-mile and four furlong handicap hurdle marks race three of the meeting (5.35) and Win Some Lose Some should take all the beating here, looking in desperate need of the step up in trip he will be getting at Wexford when rallying to finish third at Sligo three weeks ago. Of his rivals, the Elliott-trained Lucky Storm rates the main danger having landed a career-best when scoring in a 14-runner handicap hurdle at Bellewstown last time out.

Another big field of 17 are set to take on division one of the 80-102 rated handicap hurdle (6.05) and a chance can be taken on Tullyveery Lad, below par last time out but with the cheekpieces now removed and switching back to hurdles, has a chance to bounce back to form.

Race five on the card (6.35) is in division two of the same discipline as the previous race with preference heading the way of Steps Match, who has dropped to his previous winning mark and has a conditional rider taking even more weight off so should take the beating, while race six (7.05) can go to Hatfield Hammer, much improved in recent weeks including a second of 12 in a Kilbeggan hurdle contest.

The penultimate race on the card (7.35) is a two-mile handicap hurdle and it could well see another full field of 17 take it on. The Vegas Raider can end a long losing streak here being the pick of the weights following a fine second at Downpatrick on his last spin. This is an open contest however and the Kennedy/Elliott combo team up with Up And Out, who cannot be discounted off a decent fourth of 14 at Cork.

Finally, the card comes to a close with the bumper over the extended two-mile distance at 8.05 with preference in the finale heading to Jisco Du Brem, a half-brother to a previous French bumper winner making his racecourse debut here who looks bred for this kind of trip.