Popular jumper Toulouse Lautrec will be looking to make up for lost time when he has his first jumps start in nearly two years in Sunday's Great Southern Steeplechase at Pakenham.The nine-year-old suffered a suspensory injury and fell in the Grand National Steeplechase at Flemington at his last jumps start in July 2008, but has delighted trainer Chris Hyland with how well he is going leading into the 3200m Pakenham feature."There is not too much wrong with him," Hyland said."He trialled at Yarra

Popular jumper Toulouse Lautrec will be looking to make up for lost time when he has his first jumps start in nearly two years in Sunday's Great Southern Steeplechase at Pakenham.

The nine-year-old suffered a suspensory injury and fell in the Grand National Steeplechase at Flemington at his last jumps start in July 2008, but has delighted trainer Chris Hyland with how well he is going leading into the 3200m Pakenham feature.

"There is not too much wrong with him," Hyland said.

"He trialled at Yarra Valley on Friday and won by three lengths jumping beautifully all the way."

Toulouse Lautrec also won a trial by four lengths over the new jumps at Cranbourne on April 23.

His only hiccup was four days later when he slipped on a wet track and lost his rider which prevented him from qualifying for the Warrnambool carnival earlier this month.

Hyland said it was "no big deal" missing Warrnambool but he would have liked to get some money back for his owners who have forked out more than $4000 in training fees in the past month qualifying Toulouse Lautrec for the new season.

Toulouse Lautrec is an exciting jumper and he is still largely untapped.

The Grand National Steeplechase was the only time that he had failed to finish a jumps race after a near perfect record of six wins and a second from his other seven starts.

In 2008 he won the Great Southern Steeplechase when it was run at Mornington and went on to win the Trevor Clarke Steeplechase and the Australian Steeplechase at his next two starts.

A year ago he looked like making a successful comeback but, without a jumps start, Hyland stopped his campaign when one of his joints heated up.

Hyland has Toulouse Lautrec well conditioned for his return to jumps racing after a mixture of trials and three race starts on the flat, his most recent in the Stawell Cup on April 4.

"He is in good order and as much as he looks an awkward jumper, he has shown he gets over them okay," Hyland said.

Raced by Graham Mapp's Hobartville Stud throughout his career, Toulouse Lautrec carried the famous white, brown and yellow colours to victory in the 2004 Queensland Derby.