Cheltenham Gold Cup third Road To Riches is the star turn among 12 entries for next Thursday's Clonmel Oil Chase.

Noel Meade's stable star won the Galway Plate, the JNwine.com Champion Chase and the Lexus Chase during a fantastic campaign last season before being placed in the blue riband at Cheltenham and the Punchestown Gold Cup.

The eight-year-old will drop to two and a half miles if making his seasonal reappearance in this Grade Two event at Powerstown Park.

Felix Yonger won his last four races last season and is one of three contenders for Willie Mullins. The champion trainer has also entered Gitane Du Berlais and Twinlight.

Gordon Elliott is represented by Bright New Dawn, Clarcam and Roi Du Mee, while Sandra Hughes has entered last season's Irish Grand National hero Thunder And Roses.

The Mouse Morris-trained First Lieutenant, Henry de Bromhead's pair of Home Farm and Smashing and Tim Doyle's stable star Mallowney complete the list.

The main supporting race is the European Breeders Fund T.A. Morris Memorial Mares Chase, in which the hugely-exciting Vroum Vroum Mag could return.

The imposing mare won each of her five starts in a canter for the Mullins team last season and is prominent in ante-post lists for the Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury on November 28.

Her potential rivals if she does make her comeback at Clonmel include Perfect Woman who has won her last four races for trainer Mick Winters, and Elliott's Miss Dinamic.