Anton Marcus, side-lined with a broken wrist, is going flat out to speed up recovery.

Marcus underwent surgery at the weekend to have screws inserted in the wrist and is not sure how long it will be before he makes it back into the saddle, although if he has his way it will be sooner rather than later.

“I’ve been reading up on all sorts of treatment to expedite recovery. Whether they will work or not, I don’t know, but I’m trying my best.”

He started intense treatment on Monday. “I’m going for four treatments a day. I started this morning at 9 o’clock in the hyperbaric chamber, at 12 o’clock I went for electromagnetic radiation. At 1 o’clock I was in the cryotherapy chamber and at 4 o’clock I’ll be back for more radiation treatment. Four treatments a day for 10 days.”

“Hopefully one or all of them will work, I don’t know, but I just want to get back as soon as possible. When? I have zero idea.”

Marcus was dumped heavily from his Daisy Guineas mount White River at the exit to the paddock enclosure when the colt reacted to the bell signalling for horses to leave the ring. Half an hour earlier Marcus had ridden a tremendous finish on the Duncan Howells-trained Fiorella to edge out hot favourite Snowdance.

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