HORSE RACING:CHRISTIE'S FOXHUNTER Chase winner Salsify is set to bid for a famous double at Fairyhouse on Tuesday.

Trained by Rodger Sweeney, the seven-year-old got home by a length from Chapoturgeon in a thrilling finish at Cheltenham last month.

He is one of 27 entries for the Joseph O’Reilly Memorial Hunters Chase, which also includes Zemsky, winner of the Cheltenham event 12 months ago.

Salsify won this race last year, and Sweeney said: “He has come out of Cheltenham well and as long as the ground is safe, we’re on for Fairyhouse.

“If all goes well then we will look to go to Punchestown afterwards.”

Zemsky has not run since his Cheltenham victory last year and his trainer Ian Ferguson said: “We had some problems before Christmas with splints, but they’ve settled down now and he has done plenty of work.

“As long as the ground is safe he will run. He has won first time out in the past.”

Meanwhile, Joseph O’Brien’s ride on Camelot in the Racing Post Trophy was voted International Jockey Ride of the Year at last night’s Stobart Lesters awards ceremony at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole last night.

Former John Oxx apprentice Cathy Gannon took the prize for the Lady Jockey of the Year award for the second year, while Hanagan, recently-appointed number one rider to Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum, picked up the award for Flat Jockey of the Year, as well as Ride of the Year for his effort on the Richard Fahey-trained Barefoot Lady at Newmarket last April.

Tony McCoy made it 17 Lesters after again picking up the Jump Jockey of the Year title.

The Apprentice Jockey of the Year award went to 2011 champion Martin Harley.