He’ll be lucky to ride this season, says Aidan O’Brien
Injury a blow to Ballydoyle trainer’s running plans
Ryan Moore may miss the rest of the Flat season with a stress fracture to a femur. Moore was booked to ride at the Curragh on Saturday, but was taken off all his mounts by midday.
Moore is retained jockey for Aidan O’Brien’s powerful Ballydoyle yard, with the Coolmore operation now facing the prospect of being without one of the world’s best jockeys for the business end of the campaign, with countless big races on the horizon.
O’Brien said: “Ryan is good, he was having plenty of trouble with his right leg since Irish Derby weekend. They were doing everything to it to try to get it right, but they couldn’t get it right so he went for scans and an X-ray on it yesterday. He has a fracture in his femur.
