Lynch set to make comeback on Mr Bounty at Ayr
The jockey, 36, admitted to stopping a horse, Bond City, from winning at Ripon in August 2004, supplying inside information about six of his rides, and associating with the disqualified Miles Rodgers.
Lynch must firstly participate in a British Horseracing Authority integrity education video, after which his proposed comeback will be earmarked at the Scottish circuit.
O’Callaghan has made two entries at the Scottish track, but only plans to run Mr Bounty in the Danny Tyson Handicap.
The County Kildare handler said: “I won’t run the two-year-old (Blue Fragrance), but, all being well, Mr Bounty will run as I want to help Fergal out.
“Fergal has been very good to me, he’s been very loyal since I started training and I’m a loyal person myself.
“I have a great relationship with him. He rides out for me in a morning and rides work and we’ve never had a crossed word.
“I’ve had 13 winners so far and Fergal will have ridden the majority of them. He was very young when all that happened years ago and I firmly believe everyone deserves a second chance.
“The horse (Mr Bounty) bolted up the last time he went to England (at Kempton).
“There aren’t many opportunities for him in Ireland with the way the race bandings work and the race in Ayr is more his grade, so hopefully he’d have a chance.”
The former champion apprentice was fined £50,000 in July 2009 and agreed not to ride in Britain for at least a year as part of a plea bargain agreement with the BHA.
He has, however, been free to ride in Ireland after he was granted a licence by the Turf Club in April 2012.
* Steuben landed a gamble as he gave Johnny Murtagh a first winner as a trainer at Southwell yesterday.
The eight-year-old had been off the track since October 2012, when he finished down the field in a Yarmouth handicap for Barney Curley.
Subsequently transferred to Murtagh’s care, Steuben was sent off the 11-10 favourite for the £10 Free Bet At 32RedSport.com Handicap but made hard work of justifying his cramped odds in the nine-runner heat.
Master Dan looked the likely victor heading into the final furlong but Steuben dug deep to get up a by a neck in the hands of 5lb-claimer Ross Coakley.
The Murtagh-trained Bwindi had also been the subject of market support as he tackled the Macmillan Roseland Business Park AI Eastmidlands Handicap under Kieren Fallon.
The rider was noted pushing his mount along in the early stages of the one-mile-and-six-furlong heat and looked out of it at the top of the straight.
However, Fallon did not give up and while Bwindi made up plenty of ground in the final furlong, he had to be content with second behind Moving Waves.
