Mouse Morris will today confirm either Tony McCoy or Paul Carberry as Boss Doyle's rider in the Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup at Leopardstown on Sunday.
Morris has to find a replacement for Shay Barry, who lost his appeal against a four-day whip ban due to start today.
Favourite to take the ride on the seven-year-old looks to be McCoy, although Carberry, whose 10-day ban for mistaking the number of circuits in a hurdle race at Naas finishes on Saturday, will also be available.
"It will either be McCoy or Carberry and I will know tomorrow," said the trainer yesterday. "I have been trying to get hold of McCoy and I will be talking to him tonight.
"I will have one of them by tomorrow, though which one, I honestly haven't a clue."
Shane Kelly faces a lay-off of at least a month after breaking his left wrist in a fall at Taunton on Tuesday.
Kelly, attached to Venetia Williams' yard, was unseated from his boss's Pennywise at the penultimate flight of the second division of the Staplemead Seminar Suite Maiden Hurdle, and X-rays confirmed that the jockey had suffered a break.
"I was tracking the two leaders coming to the second-last and we were going a fair rattle, and she appeared to be meeting it spot-on and she put down. She shot me up into the air, I put my hand out to break my fall and crack!"
Although broken bones are never good news for jockeys, Kelly is taking some comfort from the fact that he faces an imminent suspension from the Jockey Club.
The Irishman was referred to Portman Square after the stewards found him guilty of using his whip above shoulder height on Selberry at Huntingdon last Thursday.
As he had incurred more than 15 days' suspension for whip offences during the previous 12 months, including 14 days for marking Williams' Boots Madden at Doncaster in December, an appearance under the Jockey Club's totting up procedure was inevitable.
"I will probably get two to three weeks, so it's a strange thing to say but maybe it has worked out well," was Kelly's view.
Michael Kinane's second Hong Kong stint of the season gets underway on Saturday and the multiple Irish champion can't wait to get started.
Kinane rode in five meetings in the territory during December when he rode one winner. His current stint will take him into March.
He said: "I have had a six-week break so I am ready to get back into action, although I could be a bit stiff after Saturday."
The Irishman is expecting a book of six rides at Sha Tin on Saturday, and he is looking forward to riding Hong Kong Derby prospect, Desert Fox, in the Classic Trial.
Kinane numbers two wins in the Hong Kong Derby on Sound Print (1992) and Che Sara Sara (1997). Kinane will also riding in Saudi Arabia and India this month.
