PAT GOES GREEN Pat Eddery launches his 35th season with a ride at Southwell tomorrow. The 11-time champion jockey, fresh from celebrating his 49th birthday today, partners Greenhope for Jamie Osborne in the Book A Private Box Today Maiden Stakes. Eddery, who had his first mount as a 15-year-old apprentice in Ireland in 1967, has not ridden in public since the Japan Cup last November. But his agent Mike Hawkett said: 'He has ridden out for several trainers and he is looking forward to the start of the season. 'I would not say that he will necessarily win tomorrow but Greenhope could be a nice horse later in the season.' Eddery is warming up for the turf season, which starts with the Lincoln meeting at Doncaster on Thursday. 'He will be at Doncaster all three days,' Hawkett added. 'Pat rides Right Wing for John Dunlop on Thursday and he would like to ride his Lucky Gitano in the Lincoln on Saturday but he needs a few horses to come out to get a run. 'He would like to get through the whole year without accidents and suspension and it would be nice to get to 100 winners again.' The Lincoln is one of the few big races to have eluded Eddery, who has finished third in the big handicap on Night Of Glass and Right Wing in the past two years. He has ridden at least 100 winners in Britain in 27 of the last 28 seasons.
