Injury rules Hide out of festival Philip Hide will miss the Cheltenham Festival after discovering he had fractured a bone in his left ankle.Hide had injured the ankle when unseated from Pace Stalker in a chase at Folkestone on February 19th and had hoped to return to the saddle last Saturday.However, after schooling for Josh Gifford on Friday morning, the jockey felt in discomfort and a visit to hospital for X-rays revealed the damage was far greater than first thought.'It`s really annoying, as I didn`t believe I had broken it,' said Hide. 'But after riding on Friday I went for X-rays and I found out I`d actually fractured it.'I`m going back in two weeks to have it X-rayed again. It means it will be a month so I hope I should be all right to come back then.'
