Tony McCoy suffered a fall at the 2006 Galway Festival
Champion jump jockey Tony McCoy made a winning return from injury with two victories at Hereford on Thursday.
McCoy had been out for eight weeks after breaking his right wrist at the Galway Festival on 2 August.

But the 32-year-old Northern Irishman got straight back to business, winning a novices' hurdle on 8-11 favourite Absolutelythebest by a huge 17 lengths.

He then went on to win the day's final race, the National Hunt flat race, on Bouncy Castle at 7-2.

McCoy said afterwards: "The wrist is OK. My physio told me the only thing that's going to totally help it is to get back riding.

"The nerves through my hand and my elbow are probably as sore as anything, but I don't notice it riding. I was worried coming back riding that if I needed to give a horse three smacks would I be able to? But it felt OK there."

McCoy now has 51 winners for the season and he is odds-on to win his 12th title in a row.

While he was out of action, his lead had been whittled away with Tom O'Brien and Richard Johnson both challenging.

Mick Kinane will replace Kieren Fallon on George Washington
George Washington heads a top-class field of nine in Saturday's Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot.
Aidan O'Brien's 2,000 Guineas winner will renew rivalry with Araafa, who beat him in the Irish equivalent.

The line-up for the £250,000 contest also includes John Gosden's Coronation Stakes-winning filly Nannina.

The in-form Godolphin team rely on Proclamation and Librettist, who is seeking his third straight Group One win in the mile-long race.

Frankie Dettori will partner Librettist on the 10th anniversary of the jockey's famous 'Magnificent Seven' where he rode every winner on the card at the Berkshire course.

The oldest horse in the field is Ed Dunlop's Court Masterpiece, who won the Sussex Stakes at Glorious Goodwood last time out.

O'Brien also runs River Tiber and Ivan Denisovich and the field is completed by the Barry Hills-trained Killybegs, who finished in front of George Washington when the pair met at Goodwood late last month.

Aussie Rules, Caradak, Satchem and Rajeem were the only withdrawals at Thursday's 48-hour declaration stage.

In the other Group One race on the card, Marco Botti's unbeaten Sesmen will face seven rivals in the Meon Valley Stud Fillies' Mile.

After stretching her 100% record to three successes in the Prestige Stakes at Goodwood, the filly was supplemented for this Group One contest at a cost of £20,000 at Monday's confirmation stage.

Nannina claimed a two-length win in the Royal Ascot race
Nannina has been confirmed as the winner of this year's Coronation Stakes after a second urine sample showed no trace of a banned substance.
The Horseracing Regulatory Authority ordered a test on her B sample after her original speciman was positive following her Royal Ascot win in June.

However, a negative result from that means the John Gosden-trained filly will now keep the Group One race.

The £152,000 first prize has now been released to the winner's connections.

Paul Struthers, public relations manager for the HRA said: "The HRA's Counter Analysis Advisory Committee will now try to establish why there is a discrepancy in the results of the A and B samples.

"It is standard HRA policy not to discuss individual samples until after a positive B test.

"However, we have done so in this case as the positive A sample, whilst never confirmed by the HRA, had managed to get into the public domain."

Sixties Icon had a superb win under Dettori last time out
Hot favourite Sixties Icon heads 12 horses declared for the St Leger at York on Saturday.
Jeremy Noseda's colt, who will be ridden by Frankie Dettori, staked his claim for glory by winning the BGC Stakes at Glorious Goodwood.

The runner-up that day, Marcus Tregoning's Jadalee, is among his rivals after winning the March Stakes, back at Goodwood.

Other hopefuls include Red Rocks, trained by Brian Meehan.

Red Rocks was a narrow loser to Youmzain in the Great Voltigeur Stakes at York last month.

His conqueror does not run in the Leger although trainer Mick Channon will be represented by Championship Point.

Irish trainer Aidan O'Brien has left in four horses - Fire And Rain, Mountain, Puerto Rico and Tusculum - as he seeks a fourth victory in the race.

The world's oldest Classic, which is run over 1m 6f, has been moved from its traditional Doncaster home while that course is redeveloped.

Mont Etoile, trained by William Haggas, bids to become the first filly to win the race since User Friendly in 1992.

And Ask is asked to try to give Sir Michael Stoute his first Leger triumph, the only British Classic to elude the Newmarket trainer.

Galient, trained by Michael Jarvis, and The Last Drop from Barry Hills's stable, complete the field.



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Ladbrokes St Leger: Ask, Championship Point, Fire And Rain, Galient, Jadalee, Mountain, Puerto Rico, Red Rocks, Sixties Icon, The Last Drop, Tusculum, Mont Etoile (12).