Ruby will be ready for Galway

CHAMPION jockey Ruby Walsh is currently on the easy-list, but virtually certain to be back in action for the Galway Festival, which starts next Monday.

Explained his agent and sister, Jennifer: "Ruby twisted his back when winning on Native Stag at Killarney last Thursday. Then he aggravated it on Bassett Tiger at Kilbeggan on Friday night and that wasn't a help. At the moment he is having physio and just giving himself a few days. I have no doubt he will return at the weekend.”

Walsh hasn't ridden since partnering his father Ted's Kid Creole to finish second to Precipitous in a seven furlongs handicap at the Curragh on Saturday.