Citizenship aims to capitalise on a lowly Flat rating in the Leopardstown Club Members Handicap on Thursday evening.
Jessie Harrington's six-year-old developed into a leading handicap hurdler during the last NH season, winning the Boylesports.com Hurdle at this venue.
He reverts to the level off a mark of just 65, and bumps into Aidan O'Brien's filly Beach Of Falesa, who was denied by the shortest of margins at Roscommon on Monday.
O'Brien has only recently given Chamonix an entry in the Great Voltigeur, so he must have been showing something on the Ballydoyle gallops, and he belatedly begins his racing career in the 'JAPE' Maiden, where Harrington's Beyond Berlin and the John Oxx-trained Shelford lie in wait.
O'Brien hasn't been able to get a win out of Wonderful yet but, unless the Dermot Weld newcomer Unreachable is something out of the ordinary, it will be disappointing if she can't get off the mark in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Maiden.
Weld sends Starstruck for the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Fillies Maiden but she will need to leave her moderate Cork introduction a long way behind to get the better of Andrew Oliver's Shamora.
Our Conor and Beat The Ballot fought out the finish of a Naas contest just over two weeks ago and they renew rivalries with the beaten favourite Sure Reef in the jogforjockeys.ie Handicap.
Happy Anniversary relished the testing conditions to score at Bellewstown last weekend and makes a swift reappearance under a 5lb penalty in the Leopardstown Apprentice Handicap, which gets the meeting under way at 5.55.
China One was less than four lengths adrift of Hartani when last seen and given the way the winner then took the Curragh Cup, Paul Deegan's colt is expected to be high on most shortlists for the Follow Leopardstown On Facebook Handicap.