British jockey Goode in horror fall in Australia
By Racingpost.com Staff5.12PM 29 JUN 2009
PAUL GOODE, a former apprentice with Patrick Haslam, suffered multiple spinal fractures during a horrorrace fall at Queanbeyan, New South Wales, on Monday.
Paul Goode: spinal fractures
PICTURE: John Grossick
Goode, 31, was taken to hospital in nearby Canberra and was reported to have movementin his arms but no feeling in his legs. Doctors late on Monday were making plans to fly Goode to a specialist spinal unit in Sydney.
The Daily Telegraph in Sydney reported that Goode's mount Shot Of The Rails fell in the back straight, about five furlongs from the finish of the 7f Cemex Building Handicap, crashing through the running rail and dumping the rider on the inside cinder track.
Ambulance officers were quickly on the scene and, due to the serious nature ofthe jockey's injuries, recommended that he should not be moved until a helicopter arrived to take him to hospital.
But, after it was learned that the helicopter could take up to an hour to arrive, it was decided to take Goode in an ambulance.
"Paul Goode was on the track for quite some time, I'd say about 45 minutes, because the ambulance officers were reluctant to move him," Queanbeyan Jockey Club chief executive Paul Greentree said.
"They [the ambulance officers] did a wonderful job with Paul. Eventually they made the decison to put him in the ambulance and drive to the hospital."
Acting chief steward Craig Yeo was left with no alternative but to abandonthe last race. "The ambulance officers were concerned with Paul Goode's condition," Yeo said. "As you would understand, I can't release too many details about his injuries but he was conscious and talking."
Stewards have adjourned an inquiry into the race fall until they can interview Goode.
Brought up in Surrey, Goode joined the British Racing School at the age of 16 and worked for Roger Charlton and Charles Cyzer before joining Haslam. He rodehis first winner in November 1997 when the Haslam-trained Rockswain took a seller at Wolverhampton. In total, he has ridden 75 winners in Britain.
Best known in Britain for his association with prolific winning sprinter Sihafi in the late 1990s, Goode moved to Australia six years ago on a working holiday and never left. He is based at Warwick Farm and scored the biggest win of his career on The Jonker in the A$1 million Inglis Premier Classic at Flemington four years ago.
By Racingpost.com Staff5.12PM 29 JUN 2009
PAUL GOODE, a former apprentice with Patrick Haslam, suffered multiple spinal fractures during a horrorrace fall at Queanbeyan, New South Wales, on Monday.
PICTURE: John Grossick
Goode, 31, was taken to hospital in nearby Canberra and was reported to have movementin his arms but no feeling in his legs. Doctors late on Monday were making plans to fly Goode to a specialist spinal unit in Sydney.
The Daily Telegraph in Sydney reported that Goode's mount Shot Of The Rails fell in the back straight, about five furlongs from the finish of the 7f Cemex Building Handicap, crashing through the running rail and dumping the rider on the inside cinder track.
Ambulance officers were quickly on the scene and, due to the serious nature ofthe jockey's injuries, recommended that he should not be moved until a helicopter arrived to take him to hospital.
But, after it was learned that the helicopter could take up to an hour to arrive, it was decided to take Goode in an ambulance.
"Paul Goode was on the track for quite some time, I'd say about 45 minutes, because the ambulance officers were reluctant to move him," Queanbeyan Jockey Club chief executive Paul Greentree said.
"They [the ambulance officers] did a wonderful job with Paul. Eventually they made the decison to put him in the ambulance and drive to the hospital."
Acting chief steward Craig Yeo was left with no alternative but to abandonthe last race. "The ambulance officers were concerned with Paul Goode's condition," Yeo said. "As you would understand, I can't release too many details about his injuries but he was conscious and talking."
Stewards have adjourned an inquiry into the race fall until they can interview Goode.
Brought up in Surrey, Goode joined the British Racing School at the age of 16 and worked for Roger Charlton and Charles Cyzer before joining Haslam. He rodehis first winner in November 1997 when the Haslam-trained Rockswain took a seller at Wolverhampton. In total, he has ridden 75 winners in Britain.
Best known in Britain for his association with prolific winning sprinter Sihafi in the late 1990s, Goode moved to Australia six years ago on a working holiday and never left. He is based at Warwick Farm and scored the biggest win of his career on The Jonker in the A$1 million Inglis Premier Classic at Flemington four years ago.
