THE owners of Juddmonte have decided that Field Of Gold will remain in training as a four-year-old. The son of Kingman won the Irish 2000 Guineas and St James’s Palace Stakes this year before disappointing in the Sussex Stakes. The John and Thady Gosden-trained colt returned from a break at Ascot last weekend where he finished fifth in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes.

JUMP jockey Micheal Nolan is being supported in regaining his voice following a heavy fall at Worcester last week. From Rathanna in Co Carlow, Nolan came to grief in a hurdle race at the track on October 15th and was consequently taken to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital for treatment.

Emergency surgery was performed successfully but has had the effect of impairing Nolan’s speech, though his recovery from the injury is otherwise good.

A statement from the Injured Jockeys Fund read: “Following a fall at Worcester Racecourse on Wednesday 15 October, Micheal Nolan went to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital.

“He sustained an unstable fracture of his seventh cervical vertebra at the joint with the first thoracic vertebra and underwent emergency surgery to realign and stabilise the affected vertebrae.

“Following successful surgery, Micheal is currently experiencing a loss of his voice, a known and usually temporary complication associated with operations performed from the front of the neck, and he will be supported by speech and language specialists.”

DEREK and Gay Veitch have won the Connolly’s Red Mills The Irish Field Breeder of the Month competition for September. They bred Big Mojo, winner of the Haydock Sprint Cup.

THE Dublin-born jockey Robert Winston has come out of retirement and successfully applied for a licence to ride in Bahrain this winter. Aged 45, Winston rode approximately 1,600 winners prior to his retirement in 2022.