CATHY Gannon’s injury jinx has struck again with the Wantage-based jockey facing at least two months on the sidelines after breaking all five of her toes on her left foot in a stalls incident at Lingfield.

The 34-year-old rider sustained the injury when Spring Overture, from Brendan Powell’s Upper Lambourn yard, played up before the selling stakes and had to be withdrawn.

It came after Gannon had notched her 14th winner of the year on her previous ride on the card when getting Figurante home by a nose for fellow Upper Lambourn trainer Jamie Osborne in a fillies’ handicap.

Gannon has now set her sights on returning for the Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup meeting at Ascot on August 6.

It is the latest in a catalogue of injuries the three-time lady jockey of the year has suffered, coming just 14 months after she returned from a troublesome shoulder problem picked up in 2013.

She broke her jaw in 2012 after suffering a fractured right leg the previous year, while she also missed last year’s Shergar Cup with a collar-bone injury.

Meanwhile, West Ilsley trainer Mick Channon is set to let Harlequeen take her chance in the Investec Oaks at Epsom on Friday.

The daughter of Canford Cliffs, who ran too keenly when finishing a creditable fourth to So Mi Dar in the Musidora Stakes at York last month, is a 25-1 outsider for the fillies’ Classic.

Believing she needs more experience, Channon gave her a workout over the course at the ‘Breakfast With The Stars’ morning last week, and feels she will be suited by the step up in distance to a mile and a half.

Champion jockey Silvestre de Sousa is lined up to take the mount.

A change of tactics saw 16-1 shot Caitie get off the mark for Whatcombe trainer Paul Cole at Brighton.

Held up under David Probert rather than making the running and with the blinkers left off, the three-year-old filly finished powerfully to pip Highly Sprung by a head in a six-furlong handicap.