Punchestown chiefs unsure if Gordon Elliott will be present on his landmark day

Trainer Gordon Elliott 

Gordon Elliott will have his first runners since being hit with a year’s suspension, six months of which was suspended, for bringing the sport of horse racing into disrepute after a photograph of him sitting on a horse who had died on his gallops emerged on social media.

Oh Purple Reign will provide Elliott with what on paper, is a low-key return on the flat in the Donate To The Coast To The Curragh Cycle In Honour Of Pat Smullen Handicap at Punchestown on Tuesday afternoon but because of the nature of his offence and his profile, will be anything but.