Walsh Sympathises With Geraghty

Ruby Walsh expressed sympathy for injured jockey Barry Geraghty, who will miss Cheltenham due to injury.

JP McManus' retained jockey suffered a punctured lung and six broken ribs in a fall from Charli Parcs in the Adonis Hurdle at Kempton last Saturday.

Walsh said: "I know exactly how he is feeling, and what he was thinking.

"You can imagine the physical pain he must have been in last Saturday - six broken ribs, a collapsed lung - and still all he was thinking about was, 'How am I going to tilt this in my favour, and keep the door open and the dream alive as long as I can?'.

"I know that, mentality, I would have been thinking the same as him, and trying as hard as he was to convince myself it would be OK.

"I bet, at some stage this week, for his own peace of mind, he will try wrest himself out of bed, so he can say to himself, 'I did everything I could'.

"And that just shows you just how much riding at the Cheltenham Festival means to a National Hunt jockey."