Oliver looking for comeback win

Champion jockey Damien Oliver will be hoping to notch his first win after 15 months out the saddle at Moonee Valley today.

The Melbourne Cup winning jockey rode two second placegetters in his comeback day on Saturday at Flemington after recovering from a career threatening back injury.

Oliver broke the T3 and T4 vertabrae in a race fall at Moonee Valley on March 24 last year, the injury required surgeons to insert titanium rods on either side of his spinal cord to help the healing process.

Oliver returns to the Valley today for the first time since the horrific race fall that put him on the sidelines for 15 months with a book of only three rides.

His rides include Renmin Road for Lee Freedman in the second, the Freedman trained Our Apache in the sixth and Jacques Le Naife in the lucky last for Ballarat trainer Terry Kelly.

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