McCoy sets sights on Cheltenham

TONY McCOY is to start riding out again as his eagerly-awaited return to the saddle gathers pace.

The 12-times champion jockey has been given the all-clear by his own surgeon with the Cheltenham Festival just two weeks away.

He now just needs to satisfy British Horseracing Authority’s chief medical officer, Dr Michael Turner, before he can make plans to return to race-riding.