TINO HAAKMAN, runner-up in 2008 and 11th overall last year, will return to Kerry to lead the West Frisia Combilift team from Holland in the Kerry Group Rás Mumhan 4-Day International Cycle Race over the Easter weekend.

Promising three-year-old hurdler Pistolet Noir has joined the Paul Nicholls stable after being bought privately out of Nick Williams' yard by Andy Stewart and Paul Roy.