CATHY Gannon’s injury frustration goes on with her intended return to the saddle being put back to the spring.

The Wantage-based jockey, who broke all five toes on her left foot in a stalls incident at Lingfield in May, had hoped to be back for the Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup meeting at Ascot last August.

But when she was forced to give up on that target, and a return the following month, she set her sights on a new year comeback.

However, the 35-year-old’s recovery has taken longer than expected, and she is now looking to resume riding in April.

Gannon had ridden 15 winners last year when she sustained the injury when the Brendan Powell-trained Spring Overture played up in the stalls at the Surrey course and had to be withdrawn.

It was 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 sustaining a fractured right leg the previous year, while she also missed the 2015 Shergar Cup with a collar-bone injury.

Meanwhile, Aurora Gray gave East Ilsley trainer Hughie Morrison his first winner of 2017 when repeating last month’s course and distance win at Lingfield.

The four-year-old filly stayed on well in a two-mile handicap to deny Miss Tiger Lily by three-quarters of a length under George Baker.

West Ilsley trainer Mick Channon also opened his account for the year on the same card when Summer Icon completed a double for Baker by storming home for a two-and-a-quarter-lengths triumph in a seven-furlong fillies’ handicap.