BLOW FOR MOORE AS FRACTURE IS FOUND

RYAN MOORE has a leg fracture and will miss the Irish Champions Festival, the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe and the remainder of the 2025 season.

- BY DAVID YATES

Moore, who hadn't ridden since finishing fifth aboard Bedtime Story in the Group 1 Prix Jean Romanet at Deauville last Sunday, was due to take five mounts at the Curragh yesterday.

But the 41-year-old was stood down by the Curragh stewards and O'Brien (below) revealed the Ballydoyle stable jockey has a fractured femur in his right leg.

“Ryan has been having trouble with his right leg since after the Irish Derby,” he said.

“He was getting a lot of stuff done to it and trying to keep it right, like Ryan obviously would.