Luckless Bryan Cooper sidelined again with fractured pelvis

Injury-plagued jockey Bryan Cooper will see a specialist on Friday before he even begins to think about his rehabilitation from a fractured pelvis.

Cooper suffered the injury when he was unseated from Arkwrisht, who made a bad mistake five out in a beginners’ chase at Punchestown on Saturday.

“When I had my fall at Punchestown yesterday, I felt sore, but I didn’t think it was much more than that when I walked into the ambulance,” Cooper said. “I didn’t feel that bad at the time, and I thought it was just a bang on a leg that I had broken before, and on my lower back.