Bryony Frost is expected to return to race-riding in the next two to three weeks, sources close to the popular jockey have confirmed. The news will be widely welcomed, as Frost declined to put a timescale on her comeback when she last spoke publicly about the range of injuries she suffered last month when a horse trod on her stomach, including a fractured sternum and an arterial aneurysm as well as damage to her liver and pancreas.
Frost has been working hard on her rehabilitation during recent days, basing herself at the Injured Jockeys Fund’s Oaksey House in Lambourn. Reports of her progress have encouraged the trainer Paul Nicholls, who is also hoping for an imminent return from anoth er of his principal jockeys, Harry Cobden, the victim of a neck injury in early June.
“Harry is going the right way,” Nicholls said. “He’s doing lots of exercise, lots of physio and he has a scan next week, hopes to be riding out soon with a view to riding from 1 October. I think Bryony might be riding even before then but I don’t know for sure. I told the both of them, first of October’s fine.
“No one’s more enthusiastic than Bryony. She’s in too much of a hurry. It’s trying to tell her just to hang on, it’s the summer, you need to be riding Black Cortons and that when they come back in October. You don’t want to be riding too much just now. She’s too keen in a lot of ways but that’s not a bad thing.”
Nicholls does not expect to wrest the champion trainer’s title back from Nicky Henderson but spoke enthusiastically about his team before his annual owners’ day this weekend. “We’ve got a lot of really nice novice chasers like Topofthegame, Master Tommytucker, Movewiththetimes, Mont Des Avaloirs, Captain Cattistock, you can go on and on. Some really nice horses that are sort of below the radar, they’ve got to step up a gear to get to the top. Horses like Clan Des Obeaux, Diego Du Charmil, Black Corton, Dolos, Cyrname, horses that are capable of winning lots of races, and a lot of youngsters.”
Catterick 2.00 Que Amoro 2.30 Mitcd (nap) 3.00 Romaana 3.30 Perisher 4.00 Guardia Svizzera 4.30 Reveleon 5.00 Indian Pursuit
Musselburgh 2.10 Buriram 2.40 Flower Power 3.10 War Whisper 3.40 Crotchet 4.10 Military Madame 4.40 Bodacious Name 5.10 Jeffrey Harris
Lingfield 2.20 Rajman 2.50 Bella Vista 3.20 Outback Traveller 3.50 Exchequer 4.20 Blue Harmony 4.55 Zoffany Bay 5.25 General Brook
Worcester 4.45 Full 5.15 Shantou Village (nb) 5.45 We’ve Got Payet 6.15 Innoko 6.45 Chief Justice 7.15 Shadow Sadness 7.45 David’s Phoebe
Kempton 5.55 Gold At Midnight 6.25 Croque Monsieur 6.55 Maaward 7.25 Penny Poet 7.55 Atticus Boy 8.25 African Jazz 8.55 Nampara
Tips by Chris Cook
