ON Tuesday, Jody McGarvey got the all-clear to return to the saddle and the Coleraine native was back riding out on the Curragh the following morning with a busy few days ahead of him.

“I’m riding out for Joseph (O’Brien) on Thursday, in schooling races at Punchestown on Friday and I hope to have a ride or two at Clonmel next Thursday,” said the Co Kildare-based jockey who injured his chest and neck in a fall at Limerick on St Stephen’s Day having been out of action from September to November following a fracture to his T8 vertebra.