Jockey retires after docs say MRI scan outcomes have been like a ‘automotive crash sufferer’
Jockey Jamie Moore was advised his MRI scan outcomes seemed like these of a “car crash victim” after a horrific fall that pressured him to retire.
The 39-year-old is an icon on this planet of horse racing having rode 968 winners, together with seven in Grade 1 races in his illustrious 23-year profession. He referred to as time on his profession earlier this month on medical grounds after struggling a brutal fall at Lingfield in November 2023.
The horrifying scenario left the Englishman with a sequence of accidents together with a fractured vertebra, a big concussion, damaged enamel, and a fractured backbone, and regardless of hopes to return to racing, he was suggested by docs to not, because of the seriousness of the damage.
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“It is a risky sport and I was lucky, I got 22 years out of it,” he advised BBC Sport. “I had CT scans and they were actually OK,” he stated earlier than he was suggested to have an MRI scan on his mind which confirmed severe points. “There was just a scattering of brain bleeds in there from the falls.
“We could not inform if it was this fall in November, or it might have been a fall earlier to that, it might have been from years of being a leap jockey, years of falls.
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“But I’m actually quite glad we’ve done that because I think it will help the whole sport with concussion, more lads will probably get more MRI brain scans.”
He was advised his mind appears to be like like that of a “car crash victim” which prompted Moore to swiftly retire from the good as he admitted he was one of many fortunate ones. “The way the doctor said it to me was ‘I see a lot of footballers, rugby players and boxers and your brain, it doesn’t look like any of theirs’. And I was thinking ‘This is quite good’. Then he said ‘It looks like a car crash victim’.
“And then that hits you, you suppose ‘I undoubtedly will not be race driving any extra’. It was arduous to soak up however on the similar time I’m fortunate. There are loads of jockeys who have not been in a position to stroll away and I’ve been in a position to stroll away. So I’m very fortunate in that respect.”
