Jockey Josh Moore has had surgery in hospital two days after a horse fell on top of him in a race.
The sportsman was hurt when Gleno collided with him when he came down at Haydock on Saturday. Trained by his father Gary, the chaser was tracking the leaders when he parted company with his rider. Medics assisted Moore, who went in an ambulance to Aintree Hospital, where scans revealed he had broken his leg, several ribs, punctured a lung and damaged his lower back. He spent several months on the sidelines earlier this season after another fall led to spinal surgery.
His sister Hayley Moore said on Monday: "He's had the operation on his leg and there are no complications and they are happy with it. We're just waiting for him to come round."
It is the latest injury setback for talented jockey Moore, who recorded his best season to date in 2020-21 with 40 winners. He rode in 260 races during that time period, however this term has been restricted to competing in 106.
One of his successes came in the Grade 2 National Spirit Hurdle at Fontwell aboard Botox Has, while he also rode smart juvenile hurdler Porticello in his warm up run for the Cheltenham Festival. Last October, a heavy fall at Plumpton knocked Moore unconscious and he had to wait six days for an operation.. In the six-hour procedure, screws and rods were inserted into his back.
Moore's brother Jamie spoke to Hayley about his current hospital stay after a winner for the stable at Plumpton on Sunday. Earlier in the afternoon, Hayley had given Sky Sports Racing viewers on an update on Josh's condition.
She told how another member of the weighing room, Franny Norton, was rallying round to help the family, along with the British Horseracing Authority's chief medical adviser Dr Jerry Hill.
"It's brutal for him (Josh) this season," she said. "It was great to see him back, he had some nice victories on his return but he's only been back a couple of months and suffered something horrendous again. The horse is fine and ultimately he (Moore) will be OK, but he just seems to have no luck whatsoever."
The first of Gary Moore's eight Easter Monday runners, Moulins Clermont, took the Bruce Towers & Fisher Mechanical Services Juvenile Hurdle at Fakenham. Tom Scudamore's mount made all the running and outpointed the odds on favourite Forever William, preventing his rider Brian Hughes from edging closer to 200 winners for the campaign.
