O’BRIEN WANTS MOORE
Trainer aidan O’Brien has acknowledged he is likely to have ryan Moore riding more of his horses this season.
Speculation has raged about the likely riding plans f or i r el and’s champion trainer, with son and stable jockey Joseph having his first ride over hurdles at Limerick yesterday when fifth on egyptian Warrior.
Joseph said that he will be back riding on the Flat on Wednesday at Dundalk but the constant battle with the scales for the jockey who is almost 6ft has seemingly never been tougher.
Three-time British champion Moore stepped in for three rides for aidan O’Brien at the Curragh yesterday, winning on The Warrior. The trainer said: ‘We’ve a good relationship with ryan and we always have. We used ryan more last year than we did the year before and hopefully it will be that way again this year.’
acknowledging his son’s weight issues, O’Brien added: ‘ Obviously (doing) nine stone has been a problem for the last two seasons and last year it was a big problem.
‘This year he’s heavier than he was this time last year. He’ll go gently and we’ll see what will happen.’
Meanwhile, Oiiver Sherwood has said his Hennessy Gold Cup winner Many Clouds will run in the Grand national a week on Saturday with Leighton aspell on board.
Daryl Jacob will now ride aspell’s Dr richard new-land-trained 2014 winner Pineau De re. emma Lavelle, who had expected Jacob to ride her outsider Court By Surprise, is now searching for a replacement.
David Bass ri des Kim Bailey’s aintree hope The rainbow Hunter.
Bailey supplied aP McCoy with a win on his final day riding at ascot yesterday. it was a vintage McCoy effort as he urged Bailey’s Un ace to a short-head win over royal regatta.
The retiring champion received a special presentation from Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall. CALIFORNIA CHROME, the 2014 Kentucky Derby winner who finished second to Prince Bishop in Saturday’s Dubai World Cup, has been confirmed as a runner at Royal Ascot in June. The four-year-old, trained by Art Sherman, has the 10-furlong Prince Of Wales’s Stakes on June 17 in his sights but could first take in the one-mile Lockinge Stakes at Newbury on May 16. California Chrome will be based at Rae Guest’s stable in Newmarket. Further overseas interest in the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes could be supplied by Japan’s Spielberg, a winner on his home turf and third in the Japan Cup in November. The news of California Chrome’s British venture emerged hours before