Tony McCoy plans to ride at Ascot despite being kicked in the face at Wetherby The 17-times Champion jockey, who recorded his 100th success of the season on 32-length winner Vasco du Ronceray at Hereford on Thursday, parted company from the well-backed favourite Mr Watson as the hard-pulling gelding, who was making his hurdles debut, arrived at the two and a half mile start. The jockey tried to keep hold of the horse by hanging on to the reins, but the gelding, trained by Jonjo O'Neill, spun round and double barrelled McCoy with his hind feet, catching him in the face. There was a lot of blood and McCoy's upper lip and nose was badly split, but he was not concussed and, having been spoken to by paramedics, he was able to walk unaided to the ambulance. He was then taken from Wetherby's medical room to York to be patched up. After leaving the hospital with a face full of stitches, he planned to stop off at his dentist to have a tooth recrowned on the way home. McCoy will have to pass the doctor at Ascot today before he is allowed to ride. "I feel fine," he said. There was no structural damage, it was only skin deep. I may not look very pretty for a day or two, but I am planning to ride at Ascot provided, of course, I feel fine in the morning. Later in the afternoon, Paul Nicholls unveiled a smart recruit in the Weatherbys Hamilton Insurance Wensleydale Juvenile Hurdle when French recruit Sametegal justified odds-on favouritism with a slick performance under Ruby Walsh. A winner at Enghien when trained by Guillaume Macaire, the three year-old was the 1-2 favourite on his first outing for the Champion trainer and could not have made a better start to his British career. Walsh found himself in front on the home turn but his mount was travelling so well he was content to be there and some excellent leaps enabled them to pull further clear. BetVictor gave the winner a 25-1 quote for the Triumph Hurdle.