Clonmel still an option for Monksland Noel Meade is undecided whether to let Monksland tackle Thursday's Clonmel Oil Chase. A faller in the JNwine.com Champion Chase at Down Royal, the nine-year-old has proved on several occasions he is a classy operator when he completes the course. Placed at Grade One level three times last term, Meade is mulling a trip to Clonmel or possibly a crack at the Hennessy at Newbury. "I entered him for Clonmel but I'm not sure two and- a half around there is what he wants, we'll see what else is running," Meade told At The Races. "He was travelling well up north, but it was a long way out to say he would have won. "He'd been jumping so well and, if anything, (he) was too confident. Sean (Flanagan) said he started to trust him too much "He came out of it well and has been in great form since. "He's also in the Hennessy in England, that might be a big ask in a handicap in a big field with his jumping the way it is. "We haven't made a decision yet what we're going to do."
