Nico de Boinville made his return to the saddle a winning one with a front-running success aboard The Expensive One in the Dragonbet Born From The Betting Ring Novices’ Handicap Hurdle at Stratford.<\/p>\n
De Boinville has been sidelined since he was kicked in the back in a fall at Plumpton on Easter Monday. The 36-year-old suffered spinal and neck injuries that required him to wear a brace and he remained patient with his recovery.<\/p>\n
All the hurdles in the home straight were omitted due to a low sun, but it made no difference to the Nigel and Willy Twiston-Davies-trained The Expensive One, as the 5-4 favourite immediately went to the front of the field and held off the challenge of Fourtowns to win by two and a quarter lengths.<\/p>\n
De Boinville told Racing TV: “I think I’ll come on for the run. He’s a lovely horse and a great horse to come back on. Sammy Twiston-Davies gave me some great instructions early on and thank you to the whole team of the Twiston-Davies’ for putting me up.<\/p>\n
“It was tough (being sidelined), it was a fracture of the neck and fractures in the spine so it was a slow summer to start with and just delighted to be back under way. You just want to be back here. We’ll just enjoy today and go and have a good time.”<\/p>\n
It was no such luck for Jonjo O’Neill Jr, who was also back in the plate for the first time since April.<\/p>\n
O’Neill has been recovering from a back injury that was aggravated by a fall from Dancing City in the bet365 Gold Cup in the season finale at Sandown.<\/p>\n
He could only finish third on Trapista for his father Jonjo in the Best Odds Guaranteed On dragonbet.co.uk Handicap Chase, as Sleeping Satellite (7-2 favourite) pulled away for a one-and-a-half-length victory.<\/p>\n
The Ben Pauling-trained Just Chasing May (1-2 favourite) made it four wins from four this season with a straightforward seven-length victory in the Dragonbet Proud Sponsors Of Stratford Racecourse Handicap Chase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nico de Boinville made his return to the saddle a winning one with a front-running success aboard The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-182022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}