The injured jockeys Blake Spriggs will not be jealous when the head wall runs to Tj Smith Stakes

“I broke every rib except two, both lungs collapsed and full of blood, I had a hemorrized liver, my kidneys closed, I fractured the left forearm, I poured my left elbow and I fractured my cradle on the same side,” says this Masthead.

“I also had a rather ugly brain emotion. Since then I have seen the neurologist and I will go to scan in the next two months to see how I am progressing.

“My memory is not yet exceptional, which is common with all the sedation in which I found myself. I don’t remember anything since autumn, which is a good thing. I don’t remember being awake until after two weeks in the hospital.

“When (partner) KC came to the hospital, the doctors told her to prepare for the worst. I have no memory, but I don’t know how it was for her and my family to cross him.

“Once I started stabilizing myself, I took the pneumonia and, since my body was so weak, she put around me.

“As I said to my companions,” it was the photographic finish of a lifetime, but I have the bob in “.

“I don’t remember anything since autumn, which is a good thing.”

Jockey Blake Spriggs during his fall in Moruya

“Nothing is important now. When you think you are beaten by a bob in the races, it doesn’t seem anything now.

“Even looking at the head on Saturday, the competitor in me will be disappointed.

“But I think of the father in me and watching my son (Brooklyn), and seeing him looking at me and being so happy, and knowing that he never realized how close he was to lose his father, this is what makes me understand how lucky I am. We love the races, we live and breathe the sport, but now I realize that it is a job and the family is what it means most.

“I have not dedicated a period on the way back. I have to let myself be healed and see how the body feels before I mentally think about a return. The thing I must also take into consideration is what I have already made my family pass.”

Spriggs has dropped to 44 kg in the hospital but is slowly taking up the weight. He led nine hours to the wedding of his sister Dimitee in Campass coonamble on Friday, since he was not authorized from a medical point of view to fly.

He and KC planned to enter a pub on the home road on Saturday to look at the head, a horse he knew was special since one of the first times he jumped on board. He would go to the track for the first time since his fall remained in Sydney.

“I would have been on him on Saturday, I still speak with Regi every few days. He sent me a message on Thursday evening, telling me that all the owners were thinking about me,” said Spriggs.

“When he won the last preparation at the beginning without me because they had to claim (with an apprentice), Reg called me within two minutes of the horse that crossed the line, telling me that it was not the same because I was not there. It meant much.

“The horse has always had an excellent ability to perform good sections with ease. When Usain Bolt was at its best, he walked away from his rivals, but it seems that he was only jogging. This is what he seems on his head.

“I am lucky to be involved in such a loyal group. It will be the most difficult part. It does not win a group 1, it is not the cash prize, it is not part of that special story that we have had.

“The head head has attracted attention when it is fourth in the oak plate, and it was the one who chases Joliestar in second place in the Newmarket.”

The head head encounters some of his worst rivals to the weights due to the conditions of weight by age, but Smith said: “It is a good bloody race and a good field. But I can’t have it better. He is cherry for the day, he has a nice appearance, he worked well, he is ready to go. Whatever he does his best.

“Blake had a great association with the owners and the horse, he is a champion, and I am so happy that he is well.”