Track Talk

Lee Vickers is on the verge of a riding comeback after 15 months on the sidelines.

Vickers was air-lifted to hospital after fracturing his T12

vertebra when Dalriath fell at Southwell in July 2006.

The injury required a graft from his

hip and the insertion of rods to

support the repairing bone. These

have now been removed and Vickers,

29, is back riding out for James Given

and old boss Michael Chapman, who

has promised to support him.

The jockey, who rides on the Flat and

over jumps, said: 'Hopefully, I will get

back on the track in the second week

of October. A lot of the guys who

have had an injury try to come back

when they are still in pain and that

puts them off. I am feeling as good as

I ever did.'

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Fleeting Spirit, winner of the

Flying Childers Stakes, is to be

supplemented for the Prix de

l'Abbaye at Longchamp on October 7.

Jeremy Noseda's colt beat

subsequent Nunthorpe Stakes hero

Kingsgate Native, also Abbaye-bound

in the Molecomb Stakes at Goodwood.

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Chris Dwyer has

restarted his

training career after

nearly a year's

absence and is

hoping to saddle

his first runners

from his base at

Burrough Green

near Newmarket next month.

The former jockey handed in his licence,

which he had first taken out while

still riding in 1995, to concentrate on

his stud and pre-training business.

Dwyer said: 'I have missed the

training side of things and decided to

get my licence back on September 1.

I won't have more than half a dozen

in training this time around but I

plan to be based here and then use

Newmarket Heath when I need to.'