Norman Williamson is hoping to return to action at the weekend after badly bruising his left shoulder in a fall at Galway on Sunday. He was injured when Miss Information came down in the second division of the High Speed Data Handicap Hurdle.
Williamson said yesterday: "I'm pretty sore to be honest. There's nothing broken and it's just bad bruising to the back of my shoulder."
The injury slightly tarnished a good week for Williamson who was the top jumps jockey at the Galway Festival with four winners.
"I had a super week and it happened in the last race as well but there you go, that's life," he added.
Another Irish jockey, Tony Dobbin, expects to be sidelined for another three months following an operation on his left shoulder at Carlisle's Caldew Hospital last week.
Dobbin had made a great start to the campaign, riding 27 winners, before dislocating the shoulder at Market Rasen on July 22nd.
"The only good thing about it is that it is not a very busy time of the season," he reasoned.
"Things do not really get going with the jumpers up in the north until November so that is when I want to be race riding again, though obviously I would want to be riding out for a while beforehand - I will just have to be patient."
Best Of The Bests, fourth in the Epsom Derby to Sinndar, was among 22 entries revealed yesterday for the Petros Rose Of Lancaster Stakes at Haydock on Saturday.
