JOCKEY Hugh Morgan recorded his first winner since suffering serious injury in March 2021 when partnering Lizrona (17/2) to the Botanica International (Mares) Handicap Chase. Morgan, who returned to race-riding last Christmas, steered his mount to a three-quarters of a length win over wayward Good As Hell, which hung left in the closing stages.

Morgan, masterful in winning a 2021 Navan three-mile chase riding without irons on Young Dev, said: “I suffered a lacerated kidney, broke ribs and fractured three lower vertebrae in a fall at Naas a week before Cheltenham in 2021. I was out for nine months and was struggling to get back weight-wise and had good help from physios and dieticians.