RACING: Last season's Cheltenham Gold Cup third Neptune Collonges is among six runners in the Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup at Leopardstown on Sunday.
The Paul Nicholls inmate will bid to get his season back on track having come to grief on his seasonal reappearance in the Lexus Chase over this course and distance.
Another Lexus casualty, The Listener, makes the return journey to Ireland for Nick Mitchell, while Welsh National winner Notre Pere, Afistfullofdollars, Chelsea Harbour and Thyne Again complete the line-up.
The Noel Meade-trained Afistfullofdollars has been sidelined with injury since finishing seventh in last season's Cheltenham Gold Cup but his handler believes he is well enough to do himself justice at the weekend.
"Afistfullofdollars cracked a pelvis in the Gold Cup last year but he goes well fresh so hopefully he will run a decent race," said Meade.
"The ground is going to be pretty testing obviously but that won't bother him as he likes soft ground."
