KENNEDY IS ALL SET FOR FESTIVAL

JACK KENNEDY will make his return to the saddle at Leopardstown on Monday after being passed fit to ride at the Cheltenham Festival.

- by DAVID YATES

The 25-year-old has been sidelined since breaking a leg - the sixth time he has suffered the injury - at Fairyhouse on November 30.

But Kennedy (below) has been back riding work for boss Gordon Elliott at Cullentra House this week and was given the all-clear to make his racing comeback by surgeon Paddy Kenny yesterday morning.