MELBOURNE CUP-winning jockey Michael Rodd made a successful return to the saddle yesterday when steering Definitely Ready to a course record-breaking victory at Sandown, reports The Age (www.theage.com.au).It says: The ride on the Mark Kavanagh-trained speedster was Rodd's first since breaking a wrist in a trackwork accident at Flemington on July 28. ''It's great to be back in action, I've been working hard on my fitness during my time out and I'm primed for the carnival now,'' Rodd said.Kavanag
MELBOURNE CUP-winning jockey Michael Rodd made a successful return to the saddle yesterday when steering Definitely Ready to a course record-breaking victory at Sandown, reports The Age (www.theage.com.au).
It says: The ride on the Mark Kavanagh-trained speedster was Rodd's first since breaking a wrist in a trackwork accident at Flemington on July 28. ''It's great to be back in action, I've been working hard on my fitness during my time out and I'm primed for the carnival now,'' Rodd said.
Kavanagh is out to provide Rodd with a group 1 double at Caulfield on Saturday with the jockey set to ride star four-year-old Whobegotyou in the Underwood Stakes and improving performer Raffaello in the Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes. Kavanagh will also start Maldivian, on which Rodd won last year's Cox Plate, in the Underwood with Craig Williams taking the mount.