Ruby Walsh is back in the saddle less than a month after splenectomy

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Jockey Ruby Walsh was back in the saddle this afternoon (12 December) — less than a month after he had an operation to remove his ruptured spleen.

Ruby finished 2nd on the Paul Nicholls-trained Mahonia in his return to action in the Boylesports.com “National Hunt” Novices’ Hurdle at Cheltenham — the same racecourse at which he ruptured his spleen in a fall from Pride Of Dulcote on Saturday 15 November.

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Amy Mathieson
Former news editor

A graduate of Exeter University, Amy joined our news team from Redpin Publishing in 2008 as news writer. She was promoted to deputy news editor in May 2013 and became news editor in April 2015. She left Horse & Hound in March 2016 to take up an editorial position in Dubai.