Mark Walsh, jump racing's biggest owner J P McManus's retained jockey, will return to action this weekend just in time for the Cheltenham Festival.
Walsh, 36, has not ridden since he was rushed to hospital after damaging vertebrae in a fall at Leopardstown during the Dublin Racing Festival a month ago.
Walsh rode two winners at last year’s Festival to take his total score to seven at the meeting and will have the pick of McManus’s Irish-trained challengers next week.