Moore out of danger but no sign of return

THREE-TIME champion jockey Ryan Moore is out of hospital after suffering a neck injury at Newmarket last week but still faces an unspecified period on the sidelines.

Moore (below) was injured when his mount Newton’s Law reared in the starting stalls, throwing him into the metal structure. He spent the weekend in Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge where he had a series of investigative MRI scans understood to have been trying to pinpoint potentially damaged vertebrae.

Moore, 31, received the results of further scans yesterday. His trainer father Gary has already said he is likely to be out for more than a month and mother Jayne added: ‘He had further check-ups but everything’s fine. He’s a bit battered and bruised. Hopefully he will be back soon, but I don’t know how soon. Knowing Ryan, he won’t be back until he’s 100 per cent.’

Moore, who rode a modern-day record nine winners at Royal Ascot last month, has ridden 51 winners this season and was odds-on favourite to win a fourth jockeys’ title, but that race is now wide open. He would have been expected to ride one of the two fillies owned by his Coolmore Stud bosses — Curvy and Words — which head the betting for Saturday’s Irish Oaks at the Curragh.

Top Irish jockey Pat Smullen will ride Hugo Palmer- trained fast-improver Covert Love. Her owners have paid €30,000 to supplement their filly to the Classic after she beat older rivals in the Listed Hoppings Stakes at Newcastle. Covert Love is unbeaten in three races this year.

BRITAIN’S No 1 tipster Sam Turner (Robin Goodfellow) picked five winners from six races at Sandown yesterday – and the other was a non- runner. Seve, Coolcalmcollected, Tigers Tale, Harold Lloyd and Mythical Moment all triumphed while his tip for the 7.10, Darkside-ofthemoon, did not run.