Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Blake Shinn has made a quicker than expected recovery from a broken wrist and hopes to return to riding next week.Shinn, Sydney's premier jockey and stable rider for Gai Waterhouse, was injured in a three-horse fall at Rosehill on December 10 which left fellow hoops Peter Robl and Jeff Lloyd also on the sideline.Manager Reece Murphy said Shinn was expected to ride trackwork at Randwick on Tuesday morning."The cast came off on Thursday and his recovery is ahead schedu
Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Blake Shinn has made a quicker than expected recovery from a broken wrist and hopes to return to riding next week.
Shinn, Sydney's premier jockey and stable rider for Gai Waterhouse, was injured in a three-horse fall at Rosehill on December 10 which left fellow hoops Peter Robl and Jeff Lloyd also on the sideline.
Manager Reece Murphy said Shinn was expected to ride trackwork at Randwick on Tuesday morning.
"The cast came off on Thursday and his recovery is ahead schedule. It's about a week earlier than we expected, so it's great news," Murphy said.
"He's kept himself fit and is very happy with his weight and he will be ready to return next Saturday (at Rosehill)."
Lloyd, who was heavily concussed in the fall, celebrated a winning return to the saddle when he booted Hairy to victory in the Carrington Stakes at Randwick on New Year's Day.
Robl has been in a neck brace since the fall after suffering fractured vertebrae and will have further X-rays on the injury later this month.
Shinn is expected to ease himself back into competitive riding when he links with $30 million colt Sebring in a barrier trial next Friday.
Sebring, who missed the spring carnival because of a cannon bone injury, was scratched from a trial engagement at Rosehill on Friday.
However trainer Gai Waterhouse is saving the Golden Slipper winner for a hit-out closer to home.
"Gai has held him back because next week's trials will be on the Kensington track (at Randwick). No other reason ... he's fine," a Waterhouse representative said.
The More Than Ready colt has not raced since being denied Sydney's two-year-old triple crown when he was beaten by Samantha Miss in the Champagne Stakes (1600m) in May.
Meanwhile, Sebring's Group One-winning stablemate Theseo trialled stylishly at Rosehill as did the Gary Portelli-trained Lighthorseman.
Theseo, winner of the Epsom Handicap and Mackinnon Stakes during his last campaign, is set to resume in the CF Orr Stakes at Caulfield next month.