Darley jockey Kerrin McEvoy has declared his fitness for a complete book of Hawkesbury rides on Saturday.
McEvoy was in doubt for the meeting after he injured his foot in a barrier mishap during the week.
He didn’t ride at Warwick Farm on Wednesday and was absent from Gosford the following day before clocking on for work with seven barrier trial rides at Randwick on Friday.
McEvoy used social media to confirm he would be riding at Hawkesbury stand-alone meeting for the first time since 2010.
“The foot has taken a few days but I’m right to ride,” he said on Twitter.
Peter Snowden will supply all eight of McEvoy’s rides with Darley’s chief Australian trainer sending 16 horses to a meeting which the global breeding and racing entity has dominated in recent years.
Among the Hawkesbury highlights for Snowden has been a trifecta result in the 2011 Darley Crown.
He has three runners – Quidnunc, Aerobatics and Forfeiture – engaged in Saturday’s renewal but they are outsiders in early markets.
Bookmakers rate first-up Warwick Farm two-year-old winner Paximadia and promising three-year-old Complicate as Snowden’s best chances.
McEvoy will ride both horses with Complicate the $4 favourite to add the Hawkesbury Guineas to his Canberra Guineas win in March.
