Omens on Easter Sunday - if you like, or even if you don't!

Looking for a good omen that an unfancied outsider might win tomorrow's Irish Grand National at Fairyhouse?

Then you need look no further than the second race today at the opening of the three-day Easter Festival where Meath owner / trainer Edward Cawley was on the mark in a valuable novice hurdle with the Chris Timmons-partnered Nobody Home.

Interestingly, if you want to look for even more of those 'good oemns' the winner was chased home by a horse trained by the man who sent out the 2012 Irish Grand National winner Lion na Bearnai - that was Tom Gibney, another Meath handler who is due a winner also and is well represented tomorrow.

Today, Gibney's Global Fert, owned by Frank Reynolds was only a length and a half off Cawleys Nobody Home.

Tomorrow, Cawley has the bottom weight Forever Gold in the big race and with decent form (second to Presenting Percy before Christmas) it surely has a good chance of featuring at the finish.

There was a 66/1 chance in the frame for the opener for local trainer Shane Crawley with the front-running Reine Fee came finishing third behind the Jospeh O'Brien-trained duo of Uisce Beatha led home and Whatchamacallit.

Willie Mullins took the 59,000 first prize in the Mares Grade 1 Novice Hurdle with Laurina which cut the gap on Gordon Elliott's lead in the race for the NH trainers' title, but the Summerhill man replied with a Cork double both partnered by Dunshaughlin jockey Keith Donoghue.