 In July, Walsh caddied for Tony McCoy and met Tiger Woods at a golf event
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Top Irish jump jockey Ruby Walsh will return to action at Roscommon on Monday evening after four months on the sidelines with a broken arm.
The six-time Irish champion will be aboard likely favourite Hail Caesar for his trainer father Ted in the Owen Dervin and Sons Hurdle (1920 BST).
Walsh, 31, fractured his arm in three places after a crashing fall at Aintree on Grand National day in April.
He fell from hurdler Celestial Halo in a race before the National.
Walsh missed the ride on leading National contender Big Fella Thanks, who finished fourth.
While he was taken to hospital, the public backed his great friend Tony McCoy, who duly won the Aintree marathon at the 15th attempt on Don't Push It.
Walsh had hoped to return in late July for the Galway Festival but his surgeon Bill Quinlan advised him to wait a bit longer.
"It wasn't actually the fall that caused the damage. It was a horse coming along behind him that stood on top of him and broke his arm in three places," said Jennifer Walsh, his sister and agent.
"It was the three breaks that took the time to heal, which is why it has taken longer. The surgeon is 100% happy with it.
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"He's been riding out for the past 10 days for his Dad and at Willie Mullins's yard, so he's ready to go."
Along with McCoy, Walsh is considered one of the great National Hunt jockeys of his generation.
He rides regularly for both Mullins in Ireland and Paul Nicholls in the UK.
The Kildare-born rider has enjoyed some of his greatest successes with the Nicholls-trained Kauto Star, who has won the Cheltenham Gold Cup twice and the King George VI Chase four times.
Walsh won the National in 2000 on Papillon, who was trained by his father.
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