BRYONY INJURY SCARE
Frost faces anxious wait for National all-clear
BRYONY FROST was last night waiting to learn the severity of a shoulder injury that threatens to rule her out of the Randox Health Grand National at Aintree next month.
The 23-year-old, in the media spotlight after partnering Frodon to victory in the Ryanair Chase at Cheltenham last Thursday, walked back to the Southwell weighing room after taking a fall from the Caroline Fryer-trained Midnight Bliss in the opening handicap chase yesterday.
But Frost, whose Ryanair Chase success was the first by a female jockey in a Grade 1 race at the Festival, then went for X-rays to her left shoulder at King’s Mill Hospital in Sutton-in-Ashfield after the pain persisted.
“We’re worried,” said Frost’s father Jimmy (right). “She’s had a nasty fall and she’s very sore.
“She went to the doctor and had a word with the physio, and they sent her over for a few X-rays.”
Frost finished fifth aboard the Neil King-trained Milansbar on her first National ride at Aintree last April.
But Black Corton, on whom Frost has won seven races — including the Grade 1 Kauto Star Novices’ Chase at Kempton — is her likely mount on Merseyside in 18 days’ films.
NOEL FEHILY, who announced his impending retirement at Cheltenham last week, will ride for the final time at Newbury on Saturday. “Newbury is my local track, as I‘ve lived in Lambourn for a long time, so it fits in well,” he said.