Barry Geraghty aims to be back race-riding in time for the Galway festival

Barry Geraghty has identified the Galway festival at the end of July as a target comeback date after breaking his tibia and fibula just above his right ankle.

The 39-year-old suffered his injuries in a fall from Peregrine Run in the Topham Chase at Aintree on Friday, which forced him to miss the winning ride on Champ in the Grade 1 Sefton Novices' Hurdle and the mount on Anibale Fly in the Grand National.

He flew home to Ireland on Saturday night and is in Tallaght Hospital preparing for surgery on Monday.

Geraghty said on Sunday: "I'll undergo surgery tomorrow to repair my broken tibia and fibula. The plan is for the repaired bones to be secured with an external frame. This is considered a better option for me, as putting an internal plate on the shin bone could cause aggravation when I go back riding.

"The external frame will be on for 12 weeks and I’ll be able to put partial weight on it after three or four weeks, which improves the healing process.

"If all goes to plan and the breaks heal as they should, I'd hope to be back race-riding in time for the Galway festival."

Geraghty, who watched the Grand National in hospital, paid tribute to the achievement of Tiger Roll.

"I got to watch the National, but I was in the waiting room in the hospital, so I got to see it only once," he said.

Barry Geraghty watched the Grand National from a hospital waiting roomCredit: John Grossick (racingpost.com/photos)

"It was a great race to watch and I thought that Anibale Fly ran a creditable race in fifth. He just seemed on the back foot from a fair way out and ran well considering.

"What Tiger Roll did was something else. Winning two Grand Nationals is some achievement. A horse needs so much to come together to win just one, and the likelihood of everything aligning well enough to win another one is just very unlikely, which is why it has taken so long for it to happen since Red Rum in the 1970s."

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