Nico de Boinville returns at Stratford on Monday with a rare ride for training partnership

Nico de Boinville has "a very good chance" of returning with a winner on Monday according to the yard which gives him his comeback ride.

The multiple Grade 1-winning jockey will partner The Expensive One for Nigel and Willy Twiston-Davies in the novice handicap hurdle at Stratford, his first mount since he broke ribs and injured his neck in a fall at Plumpton on Easter Monday.

It will be only the fourth mount he has had for the yard in more than a decade and a half as a jockey and he has yet to ride them a winner.

Willy Twiston-Davies said: "Nico is very good friends with the whole family. 

"He lives just down the road and pops in every now and then. It's nice to be able to give him his first ride back and we hope he can start with a winner."

The Expensive One won a bumper at Newton Abbot last season under Sam Twiston-Davies, who was on board again when he finished runner-up on the more recent of just two outings over hurdles at Worcester three weeks ago.

Willy (left) and Nigel Twiston-Davies: joint-trainers of The Expensive OneCredit: Edward Whitaker (racingpost.com/photos)

The five-year-old is owned by Nigel Twiston-Davies and Willy said: "We hope he's got a very good chance. He should have come on for his last run, he had a good blow afterwards and should come forward for it."

De Boinville, stable jockey to Nicky Henderson, was given the all-clear to return to race-riding last week. He made frequent visits to the Injured Jockeys Fund's Oaksey House in Lambourn during his long rehabilitation.

He said: "You go from being an absolute specimen in full work to feeling like a blob. It wasn’t easy getting back into it. The first week is always the hardest.  

"The main thing that motivated me was just to get back to some sort of health and strength. It makes you very grateful to move your legs and pick up the kids. Only when you get back on a horse do you think about the racing side of things."

De Boinville is not the only jockey making his comeback at Stratford. Jonjo O'Neill Jr also returns from a layoff when he rides Trapista for Jonjo and AJ O'Neill in the 2m3½f handicap chase.

He has been out of action since he was injured in a fall on Dancing City in the bet365 Gold Cup at Sandown in April.

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