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Jon Lees

Jockey Michelle Payne couldn't walk and vomited "all day, every day" after concussion

History-making jockey Michelle Payne has revealed that she vomited “all day, every day” after one of the several concussions she has suffered during her career.

The 37-year-old Payne, the only female jockey to win Australia’s biggest race the Melbourne Cup, opened up on the scale of the health challenges she has faced after falls.

Payne rode the 100-1 chance Prince Of Penzance to victory in ‘the race that stops a nation’ in 2015 famously telling those who had doubted her ability to “get stuffed”.

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