England bounces back with a winner

DAVID ENGLAND returned from a six-month spell on the injury list to partner a winner at Leicester and put himself in line for a ride or two at the Cheltenham Festival.

The accomplished 19-year-old amateur, who has ridden for Nigel Twiston-Davies since leaving school, broke two vertebrae in his back when suffering a heavy fall in a Fegentri race in Germany last summer.

But after returning to action at Huntingdon last week, he got back to winning ways when partnering Randolph O’Brien to a distance victory in the Leicestershire and Derbyshire Yeomanry Handicap Chase.