Ryan Moore will miss the rest of the season with a broken leg, which will stand out from the Irish Champions Festival, Prix de L’Arc de Triomphe (G1) and Breeders’ Cup, as well as many other large autumn straces.
Aidan O’Brien broke the shock news on 30 August in the Curragh, where Moore was reduced from his five intended journeys, with the trainer revealing that a scan of August 29 had shown the Ballydoyle number one that Jockey had broken his right thigh.
Moore has not driven since it finished fifth Story before bedtime In the Prix Jean Romanet (G1) on August 24 Deauville, but he is struggling with the injury for the past two months, according to O’Brien, who said he had to be made of “concrete” for driving through the pain barrier.
O’Brien said: “Ryan has many problems with his right leg since the Irish Derby weekend (27-29 June). They did everything they could to get it right, but they couldn’t get it right, so he went for scans and X-rays yesterday. He has a fract in his thigh.
“He has been struggling with it since the Irish Derby weekend, but he is doing his best with it. When they found a stress fracture in his thigh, that was the answer. There is only one thing that it will repair, and that is time.”
When asked if he expected Moore to ride again this season, the trainer replied: “He would be very lucky, I would say.”
O’Brien added: “Ryan runs a lot, and they think it could run, and that might have started it. When in Germany, when he went to the start on the glory (Garden of Eden in Dusseldorf), she flooded and landed on his feet, and it could have worsened it and opened it.
“They treated him for many different things – the back of his knee and they thought he had slightly in his heel in his heel, and they thought it could be ligaments and all these different things. It was only when he had some kind of scan that he had yesterday that he realized that he had a fracture for his wife, that was that.
“In all honesty for him, he probably rides a break with his thigh for two months. Talk about concrete, that man is concrete. But with a little time he comes back.”
O’Brien is now confronted with a dilemma when Wayne Lordan picked up a 10 -day suspension last Sunday on Goodwood, which rules him from the Irish Champions Festival and the St Army (G1) in Doncaster. Lordan has called on that ban.
O’Brien added: “We have many Jockeys and the boys are all there, but Wayne (Lordan) is currently gone for the Irish Champions festival. All the usual people, they are all there, so everyone will row in it.”
Moore was in action at the Ebor Festival of York, where he had three winners, including group 1 success with Minnie Hauk In the Yorkshire Oaks (G1) August 21, but the injury means that he does not get a chance to win the Irish Champion Stakes (G1) for the sixth time September 13, or to claim a third arch on 5 October.
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