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 Original Post 2009-Apr-28, 10:14 AM
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from racingnsw
- (By Ken Gentles) Champion jockey Peter Graham has broken his wrist and is out of action for at least eight weeks after a freak fall from the Gordon Yorke-trained Cajun Gold in last Friday's barrier trial at Port Macquarie.
"I thought the horse was going to break down and tried several times to pull it up but I couldn't," Graham told from his hospital bed. I was really worried it would crash to the track and perhaps land on me so I decided my best course of action was to bail out." His dismount and landing though was not going to get him a 10 from the Russian judge, as he fell awkwardly and landed heavily on his wrist - breaking it for the third time.
"It is just the way it goes," he said philosophically. When asked why he bothers to ride in barrier trials he replied: "Gordon has given me a lot of good rides lately and I was only too happy to help him out, these things happen in racing." Ironically, the horse in question, whose leg was 'flapping in the breeze' when Graham went past him in the back of the ambulance, made an amazing recovery and did not break down at all.
"Someone told me when I arrived at the hospital the horse walked away and that stunned me, it suffered some type of nerve damage or something and made a full recovery as far as I know -so that's good news," he said. The hoop was set to be operated on late on Saturday and all in racing wish him a very speedy recovery.
Graham is not only the biggest star on the jockey stage in these parts, he is also one of racing's genuine nice guys. "I will, as usually happens when I am out injured, get to spend some more time with the family and that can't be all bad - can it?"
Graham is one of the hardest working most travelled jockeys in NSW and the time off is something he will enjoy. Just not the pain he had to go through just to to get some time off!
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