JACK Kennedy returned from serious leg injury with a first winner in six months at Tipperary on Tuesday, steering I A Connect to win Tipperary’s appropriately titled Equuip - A Leg Up For Thoroughbred People Beginners Chase.

Kennedy fractured his right tibia and fibula in a fall at Naas on January 5th and having missed the Cheltenham, Aintree and Punchestown Festivals, returned with three unsuccessful rides at Cartmel last Sunday.