MURPHY’S GREAT ESCAPE
Oisin should be fit for Arc bid despite horror fall
OISÍN MURPHY escaped serious injury in a paddock drama at Salisbury yesterday — three days before taking the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe mount aboard Chrono Genesis.
The two-time champion jockey had mounted Oasis Gift in the preliminaries when the Andrew Balding newcomer bolted, throwing Murphy into a fence and plastic rail.
Having been attended
by racecourse medical staff, the 26-year-old was taken to Salisbury District Hospital, where he received treatment for a split lip.
“Oisín has just been sewn up and he should be
back home in a couple of hours,” reported Murphy’s manager Jimmy Derham.
“It was a horrible incident but Oisín expects to ride at Ascot tomorrow.
“My understanding is that you are fine to ride, as long as you don’t do the injury any more damage.
“He will keep it covered up, so he should be OK.”
Soft ground at Longchamp has cost Teona her place in Europe’s middle-distance championship, for which 15 runners stood their ground yesterday.
FRANKIE DETTORI took Bellewstown by storm as he captured the Gannons Handicap — run in honour of his late mentor, Barney Curley — aboard the Johnny Murtagh-trained Trueba.