Tony McCoy leaves hospital and vows to return soon The 16-times champion jockey was taken to hospital on Friday suffering a great deal of pain after a heavy fall at Taunton. McCoy expressed his delight at leaving hospital and in typical manner voiced his determination to return to action at the earliest possible date. "Thankfully at long last I've got out of hospital I have broken a few ribs and I am kinda sore but I will hopefully be back racing very soon," he tweeted. Gee Bradburne, McCoy's PA, said: "He will be having a quiet week; he'll definitely not be riding this week and needs to rest. He is due to go back to the doctor in a week. He sounds in good spirits, given he won't be riding, but he is very sore. At Cheltenham on Sunday, Oscar Whisky won in the manner so-called good judges in the ante-post arena love to see. He cruised home, to beat the hard-driven Poungach by two lengths. Not surprisingly, the sponsor clipped him a point, to 5-1 for the Ladbrokes World Hurdle at the track in March and he is fully entitled to have a crack at Big Buck's. On the other hand, 'the judges" took the view that Fingal Bay was little better than workmanlike in his Challow Hurdle victory at Newbury on Saturday. Yet, Barbatos, a horse he had twice beaten in previous outings, hacked up in the opener at Cheltenham on Sunday. Philip Hobbs tells us that Fingal Bay is not a flashy worker. Nor is the gelding flamboyant on the racecourse, yet he has put together a sequence of five consecutive wins. I know which type I prefer. Give me the horse with the bombproof temperament, who reserves his best for the racecourse. Big things are predicted this year for Maurice Linahan, Jonjo O'Neill's talented conditional jockey and the 21 year-old may well already have made racing history by becoming the first rider to have been suspended for overuse of the whip and not riding out to obtain the best possible placing on the same horse, in the same race. With an inspired effort he got Palace Jester into a challenging position in the closing stages of a handicap hurdle at Chepstow last Tuesday, only to realise he had exceeded the number of permitted hits with his whip. He put his stick down and then, according to the stewards, he didn't push hard enough. As he dead-heated for first with Rev It Up, officials clearly felt he would have won outright. No wonder jockeys are confused.