Monksland can make winning return to action

Noel Meade’s Monksland can make a winning seasonal debut in the Grade 2 WKD Hurdle at Down Royal This afternoon.

Lightly raced, the five-year-old is a horse of immense potential and, hopefully, will indicate here that such thinking is not well wide of the mark.

Successful in a bumper and a maiden hurdle, he then stepped up in class in a Grade 2 at Naas in January.