ELLIOTT USING HIS IMAGINATION

THE PRL Group Novice Hurdle looks a cracker, with hurdling debut winners the Gavin Cromwell-trained Inothewayurthinkin (beat the Mullins mare Lot Of Joy in Cork) and Closutton’s French import Spanish Harlem (won at Auteuil for Gabriel

Leenders on his only start) clashing with Imagine from Gordon Elliott’s (inset) all-conquering yard.

Marginal preference, although he’ll need further than two miles in time, is for

Imagine – winner of a Punchestown bumper and a maiden hurdle in Wexford before finishing a close, staying second to Hercule Du Seuil in the Grade 3 For Auction at Navan last time.