Mount Benbulben got his fencing career back on track with a smooth success in the Nicky Connors – Lifetime In Racing Beginners Chase at Fairyhouse.

Ruby Walsh made a triumphant return to race-riding at Listowel yesterday, when driving long odds-on Rattan to a last-gasp success in the Kerrymaid Hurdle.

STEPS To Freedom, a particularly high-class recruit to jumping, has to be fancied to take the Europe V America Maiden Hurdle at Fairyhouse this afternoon.