He's back! Ryan Moore in action at Lingfield on Wednesday ahead of huge month which could include a trip to Hong Kong

Ryan Moore is back!

Britain's dominant big-race rider has been off the track since suffering a stress fracture to his right femur in August, but he is due to return at Lingfield on Wednesday having been declared for five rides on the eight-race card, including in the Winter Oaks Trial on Morrophore.

The three-time champion jockey was sighted among the John and Thady Gosden ranks last weekend, when he got some match practice in on the four-year-old on the Newmarket gallops. 

Ryan Moore (right) in action on Morrophore on Saturday morning

Moore's agent Tony Hind said: "Ryan has got the green light from the BHA to ride at Lingfield on Wednesday and will be off to Hong Kong after that."

Who is Ryan Moore riding?

11.30, 7f nursery - Sovereign Wealth

Moore's first ride back is for George Boughey, for whom he has a record of eight wins from 54 rides. 

Sovereign Wealth cost 450,000gns as a yearling but the Frankel colt has yet to get off the marks in five starts, although he has finished third on three occasions and second last time.

12.00, 6f novice - Lazzar

Moore partners this Richard Hughes-trained three-year-old who remains winless after nine starts, six on turf and three on the all-weather.

Sent off favourite at Wolverhampton in October, he could finish only eighth of nine and was reported to have bled from the nose afterwards. Now 12lb lower than when fourth here in June, this will be his first run at Lingfield since.

1.30, 1m fillies' maiden - Evening Fades

Moore links up with William Haggas on Evening Fades, who makes her debut. She is a half-sister to Group 2 winner Lights On, who was trained by Sir Michael Stoute, and Karar, a Group 3 winner for Francis Graffard.

2.00, 1m2f Winter Oaks Trial Fillies' Handicap - Morrophore

Moore teams up with John and Thady Gosden as he partners Morrophore in the £45,000 feature. The jockey rode 30 winners for John Gosden and has had a further eight since Thady joined the licence.

Moore dropped in to partner the topweight in her latest piece of work in Newmarket on Saturday morning when she covered 7f with a lead horse on the Al Bahathri Polytrack. 

The four-year-old’s last win came at Ascot in May, when the Kingman filly posted a Racing Post Rating of 103. She returned from a five-month break at Newmarket in October and finished fourth under William Buick.

2.30, 7f handicap - Invited

The afternoon ends with some symmetry to how it started as Moore teams up again with Boughey, this time with Invited, one of three runners for Middleham Park.

The three-year-old has produced his best on the all-weather and won his only course-and-distance start in August off a 2lb lower mark.

O'Brien boost before Hong Kong

A goliath of the weighing room, winner of 220 Group/Grade 1s, Coolmore's retained rider and four-time winner of the world's best jockey award, Moore has been absent since the end of August – but Aidan O'Brien revealed it was an injury he had been struggling with since the Irish Derby weekend in June.

Christophe Soumillon, who won the Prix Jacques le Marois aboard the O'Brien-trained Diego Velazquez when Moore finished last on The Lion In Winter, deputised on Ballydoyle horses to tremendous effect – partnering seven Group/Grade 1 winners in four different countries.

Christophe Soumillon: an able deputyCredit: Edward Whitaker (racingpost.com/photos)

Christophe Soumillon's Group/Grade 1 wins for Aidan O'Brien while Ryan Moore was injured

Irish Champion Stakes - Delacroix
Prix Marcel Boussac - Diamond Necklace
Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere - Puerto Rico
Fillies' Mile - Precise
Criterium International - Puerto Rico
Criterium de Saint-Cloud - Pierre Bonnard
Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf - Gstaad

Last month, the Hong Kong Jockey Club announced Moore as an intended competitor in their International Jockeys' Championship at Happy Valley on December 10, subject to the rider passing the doctor. 

Moore's return at Lingfield should pave the way to taking on the likes of Mickael Barzalona, Zac Purton, Joao Moreira, Christophe Lemaire, Hollie Doyle, William Buick and James McDonald in what is easily the most stacked international jockeys' challenge of the year.

Should Moore make it to Hong Kong, O'Brien has Los Angeles in the Vase and The Lion In Winter in the Mile four days later on the International Races card. O'Brien sits two Group/Grade 1 winners shy of tying his record of 28 top-level successes in a year, which he achieved in 2017.

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