Ruby Walsh
Ruby Walsh

Ruby Walsh confident of riding at Cheltenham Festival


Ruby Walsh is confident he will be fit to ride at the Cheltenham Festival in March.

The jockey's season was derailed on Saturday when he sustained a broken leg in a fall from Let's Dance at Punchestown.

Walsh's leg does not require an operation, though, and he told Racing UK: "Hopefully it will heal quickly. A broken leg is usually 12 weeks, give or take - (there is) 16 weeks and three days from the fall to the Cheltenham Festival.

"I have 15 and a half (weeks), or 15 and three-quarters to be ready. I don't think it matters how much experience you have. You can only do what the doctors tell you and be as patient as you can." 

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