Both Ray Cochrane and Frankie Dettori, who were injured in the horrific plane crash which claimed the life of pilot Patrick Mackey earlier this month, have said they hope to back in the saddle sometime in August.
Cochrane today dismissed reports that he would quit the saddle as 'absolute rubbish'.
Speaking in the Daily Express, the Ulsterman said: 'I suppose I'm hoping I'll be back in about two months, but we'll just have to see how everything heals up.
The swelling on my face has gone down a lot, but my back is giving me a lot of pain.'
Cochrane's doctor has told him he needs six weeks off to get his back right.
'If I rush it, it could be six months, so I'm doing what he says,' said the Derby-winning jockey.
'One or two people said that I'd give up race-riding but that was absolute rubbish. I don't see why I can't come back.'
Meanwhile, Dettori has targeted York's Ebor meeting for his anticipated return.
The Italian, who fractured his ankle and suffered rib injuries in the tragic accident which occured as the jockeys set off from Newmarket en-route to Goodwood on June 1, admitted he was frustrated at not being able to walk.
'The only things that really hurt now are just my ribs, my leg is not too bad,' he said, in an interview on Channel 4's Morning Line programme.
Dettori will visit his consultant next week and if he is given the go-ahead will spend time recouperating in Italy before attempting his comeback.
'My plan is to try to come back for York,' the former champion jockey said. 'I may come back earlier or later than that but around York, that's what I am planning to come back for.'
Dettori confirmed the two jockeys have kept in touch as they attempt to recover from their ordeal.
'I saw him (Cochrane) yesterday and he also looks very sore,' he said.
'It'll take a bit of time to come back. It was pretty frightening and physically a bad ordeal as well, we are all in bits.
'I feel like an eighty-year-old man every morning when I try to get up. Everything hurts still. It will take time but I am sure in a month's time we'll be feeling a little bit better.'
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