The leading rider returns with two well fancied rides at the Welsh track after nearly a fortnight on the sidelines
Barry Geraghty sprinkles a bit of stardust over Friday’s Chepstow card by making his return to action there after nearly a fortnight on the sidelines. “I twisted my ankle,” he told me last night, “and then it was aggravated at Sandown.”
The Esher track’s Tolworth Hurdle was the last time we saw Geraghty. He was prepared to get back in the saddle at Warwick last weekend but Birchdale became a non-runner, so he didn’t have to. It’s not a time of year when a top-class jockey feels he is missing very much if he has to take a few days off and Geraghty has been grateful for the chance to give his ankle some more time. He’s had some acupuncture in hopes of reducing the inflammation.
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