Jonathan Burke is aiming to be back in time for the Galway Festival at the end of July after fracturing his T6 vertabra in a schooling fall last month.

Burke was injured when riding on his father Liam's gallops in Curraglass, County Cork.

The jump jockey, who is retained by owners Alan and Ann Potts, missed six weeks of action earlier in the year with a compression fracture to his T3 and T4 vertebrae suffered in a fall at Thurles in January.

"I'm feeling good now again. I'm still fitted with a body brace," Burke told At The Races.

"I go back to see the specialist Paddy Kenny on Tuesday morning. Hopefully I'll start to come out of it then,"

"I'm getting there, the worse of it is over. Realistically we're looking at another six weeks. Galway is nine weeks away, so I should be back for then.

"I fractured and crushed my T6 in my back in a simple fall schooling for my father.

"I landed on the top of my head and the impact of the fall caused the damage. I was sore for two weeks and everything has settled down since then."