Groundhog day as jockey returns on Tiger Roll at Galway

Not only does Bryan Cooper return to the scene of the crime on Tuesday, he is riding the horse who committed the crime.

Tiger Roll left Cooper with a laceration of his liver and a partially collapsed lung after he sent him crashing into the take-off board of the final fence following a mistake at the second-last in a novice chase at Galway in July, and the pair are back over the same course and distance in search of better luck in the feature Grade 3 Ballybrit Novice Chase.

"I suppose it is a bit ironic alright," said the jockey. "To be riding the horse that injured you on your first ride back from the injury is probably something that's never happened before, but I'm not one bit worried about it. Up until that mistake Tiger Roll has been deadly over his fences – and he has since run well at Killarney – and it was just a freak accident.