Racing Round-up

Michael Roberts was yesterday left to contemplate at least four weeks on the sidelines after a specialist checked on the jockey's broken wrist. Roberts became the latest leading rider to face a long absence from the saddle as a result of the injury he sustained in a fall after the second race at Sandown on thursday. "Michael will have an intermediate X-ray in two weeks and the main X-ray in four weeks. He's now looking to the end of August for his return," said his agent.

Paul Kelleway's Hanan (Cash Asmussen) and Peter Chapple-Hyam's Ocean Ridge (Thierry Jarnet) line up for the Group Two Prix Robert Papin over an extended five furlongs at Maisons-Laffitte today. Chapple-Hyam won the race in 1994 with General Monash and will have high hopes with Ocean Ridge who finished second to 1,000 Guineas favourite Dazzle in the Cherry Hinton Stakes at Newmarket. Nombre Premier and Sheer Reason may be best of the four home runners.

Swinton Hurdle runner-up Dreams End will bid to go one place better in another big handicap at Galway next Thursday. Peter Bowen announced yesterday that he is is aiming the gelding, beaten just a neck by Tragic Hero in the Haydock race in May, at the pounds 45,000 Guinness Galway Hurdle. The Haverfordwest trainer reckons his eight-year-old has been tuned up nicely.