The Irish Angle: Johnny Ward's top tips for Curragh on Sunday

There is a whopper of a field for a whopper of a purse in the Friends Of The Curragh Irish Cesarewitch at The Curragh on Sunday.

I’ve got one chalked up at 33-1 in the €600,000 feature plus three fancies for an each-way treble.

Be lucky.

1.20 Surfers Paradise

There is no Ballydoyle runner here but Coolmore can still prevail with this son of Ten Sovereigns. He was well-backed when second at Tipperary and has the beating of Marty The Party on that. It is hard to see anything else winning.

3.00 Go Athletico

I speculated that this French recruit might be Ireland's best sprinter after he chased home Art Power here on Oaks Day, but it seems he bumped into the one who deserves that accolade here last time when chasing home Moss Tucker, who subsequently won the Flying Five. He travels really powerfully on this ground, the stable is flying and I can’t oppose him.Discover all the latest free bets and bookmaker sign-up offers from Racing TV’s trusted bookmaker partners! Click here for more details.

3.35 Curragh: Uncle Albert

I spoke to this horse’s trainer at Sligo and he expected the big run that followed. Assuming he has soft ground, Uncle Albert must have a great chance here given the subsequent form of the Sligo winner. A 4lb rise looks lenient.

4.10 Curragh: M C Muldoon

He's among the six Willie Mullins-trained runners in the race and the bookmakers are dangling a carrot by offering 33-1.

We’ve seen him only once since he ran below-par in the Cesarewitch at Newmarket a couple of years ago, but he wasn’t disgraced on his belated return in a small field at Galway.

The big price on offer is the layers effectively suggesting Mullins can't get this horse back to his best. We all know better than that.