Jockey Ryan Moore Ruled Out Of Big Autumn Meetings With Leg Fracture

Ryan Moore whitethorn miss nan remainder of nan Flat play pinch a accent fracture to a femur. Moore was booked to thrust astatine nan Curragh connected Saturday, but was taken disconnected each his mounts by midday.

Moore is retained jockey for Aidan O’Brien’s powerful Ballydoyle yard, pinch nan Coolmore cognition now facing nan imaginable of being without 1 of nan world’s champion jockeys for nan business extremity of nan campaign, pinch countless large races connected nan horizon.

O’Brien said: “Ryan is good, he was having plentifulness of problem pinch his correct limb since Irish Derby weekend. They were doing everything to it to effort to get it right, but they couldn’t get it correct truthful he went for scans and an X-ray connected it yesterday. He has a fracture successful his femur.

“Since nan Irish Derby play he’s been struggling pinch it, but he’s been doing his champion pinch it. When they recovered a accent fracture successful his femur that was nan answer. There is only 1 point that is going to hole it and that’s time.”

When asked if he expected him to thrust again this season, O’Brien said: “He’d beryllium very lucky, I’d say. We’ve plentifulness of jockeys and nan lads are each there, Wayne [Lordan] is gone [suspended] for Irish Champions’ Festival astatine nan moment, but each nan accustomed people, they’re each there, truthful everyone will statement in.”

He went on: “Ryan runs a batch and they deliberation it could beryllium moving and that mightiness person primitively started it. Then successful Germany, erstwhile he was going to nan commencement connected nan filly [Garden Of Eden astatine Düsseldorf] she whipped astir and he landed connected his feet and it could person aggravated it and opened it up.

“They person been treating him for a batch of different stuff, nan backmost of his knee, and they thought he had burst thing astatine nan backmost of his heel, and they thought it mightiness beryllium ligaments and each this different stuff.

“It was only erstwhile he sewage immoderate benignant of a scan he had yesterday that they realised he had a fracture to his femur, truthful that was that.

“In each fairness to him, he’s been riding for astir apt 2 months pinch a fracture to his femur. Talk astir concrete, that man is concrete. But pinch a small spot of time, he’ll beryllium back.”