Racing: Osborne's Cup luck
Easthorpe will now be ridden by Jamie Osborne in tomorrow's Murphy's Gold Cup at Cheltenham. Jason Titley, the eight-year-old's regular rider, was detained in hospital yesterday with a suspected bruised kidney following an accident on the home gallops.
"Jason is still in hospital, he is on a drip and still passing some blood, so I don't think he will be riding for a while," the gelding's trainer, Henrietta Knight, said. "Easthorpe is very well and Jamie Osborne will ride," she added.
Mick Fitzgerald still hopes to ride the well-backed Big Matt in the Murphy's despite hurting an arm in a fall at Newbury on Wednesday. "My arm is not too bad, a bit black looking and I feel a bit sore," Fitzgerald said. ``But I'll be right for Saturday."
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