Further to my post above, lets spare a thought for Cyril Small and Kim Bell. Story below from AAP:


Wednesday, 30 October 2002: Jockey Cyril Small and Kim Bell face long spells on the sidelines after suffering severe injuries in a race fall at the Gold Coast last weekend.

Small faces at least six months away from race riding as he recovers from the horror fall.

Small, best known for his association with the great Queensland performer Vo Rogue, has been fitted with a back and neck brace.

He will spend the next two weeks at the Allamanda Hospital on the Gold Coast and will then begin a a course of treatment involving a magnetic machine to assist his recuperation from eight fractures in his neck and back.

One of the fractures was more than halfway through the C2 vertebrae in his neck and doctors told Small had it been completely broken he would have died.

Bell sustained a broken collar bone and broken leg in the fall.
An inquiry into the fall will not be held until Small and Bell are able to give evidence.