Sidelined since breaking her arm, Kelly has been cleared to ride Siruh Du Lac in Saturday’s BetVictor Gold Cup at Cheltenham
If the long wait for the positive news from Cheltenham on Friday seemed unbearable, spare a thought for Lizzie Kelly. Sidelined since breaking her arm in a fall on 10 October, Kelly had just been passed fit to ride Siruh Du Lac, her front-running Festival winner earlier in the year, in today’s BetVictor Gold Cup, when suddenly the recent downpours in the west country threatened to intervene.
“He’d be the perfect comeback ride,” Kelly said. “So long as you get the fractions right, then he’s easy, an easy ride that makes it difficult for everyone else.