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17 Feb 12
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By Jessica Lamb racingpost.com
LEADING amateur Derek O'Connor has broken his left leg and will miss the Cheltenham Festival.
O'Connor, who made his festival breakthrough last season with Zemsky and Chicago Grey, was in Scotland to ride two horses for Ian Ferguson but took a heavy fall from Simonsberg in the hunter chase.
The horse was fatally injured and O'Connor was taken to the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary after the fall where x-rays showed that he had broken his left femur.
O'Connor said on Friday morning: "Unfortunately the x-rays showed up a break to my left femur. I might be getting an operation later today, it just depends on what the specialists say. It's disappointing obviously and I'm probablylooking at 8-10 weeks out of action."
Ireland's champion point-to-point jockey will miss the Cheltenham Festival, Irish Grand National meeting, Aintree Grand National meeting and is also likely to be out of action for the Punchestown festival at the end of April.
The point-to-point season concludes on Monday, June 4
LEADING amateur Derek O'Connor has broken his left leg and will miss the Cheltenham Festival.
O'Connor, who made his festival breakthrough last season with Zemsky and Chicago Grey, was in Scotland to ride two horses for Ian Ferguson but took a heavy fall from Simonsberg in the hunter chase.
The horse was fatally injured and O'Connor was taken to the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary after the fall where x-rays showed that he had broken his left femur.
O'Connor said on Friday morning: "Unfortunately the x-rays showed up a break to my left femur. I might be getting an operation later today, it just depends on what the specialists say. It's disappointing obviously and I'm probablylooking at 8-10 weeks out of action."
Ireland's champion point-to-point jockey will miss the Cheltenham Festival, Irish Grand National meeting, Aintree Grand National meeting and is also likely to be out of action for the Punchestown festival at the end of April.
The point-to-point season concludes on Monday, June 4
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The Irish-based amateur rider suffered a fractured fibula when he fell from the ill-fated Simonsberg in the Eildon Hill Stables Hunters' Chase.
O'Connor was transferred to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, where X-rays revealed a clean break. He said on Friday morning: "I'm as well as I can be, and the staff at Edinburgh are making me very comfortable. "It's a clean break of my left fibula and I have a cast just above my knee. "I'm one of the most fortunate jockeys in the world as I never get seriously injured, so this is just one of those things."  |