Spearing Injured While Racing Had To Be Airlifted to Hospital
Trainer John Spearing whose Listed success stories include Vax Lady, Vax Star, Croeso Croeso and Pintleis is recovering in hospital in Birmingham from serious injuries sustained when putting a two-year-old through the stalls for the first time.
Spearing, 78, suffered multiple fractures in the fall and had to be airlifted from his Kinnersley stables in Worcestershire to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.
Kate Ive, his assistant, said:John suffered multiple fractures and a bleed on the brain. He broke 12 back ribs, some broken in two places and his right shoulder blade and has a stable fracture of his thoracic vertebrae.
It happened when the flap was shut behind the two-year-old in the stalls and it bolted. The air ambulance crew was fantastic and he couldn't be in better hands."
Spearing has shown signs of improvement and will be brought out of intensive care soon. Thereafter he will be shifted to Oaksey House to recover.
SW wishes him our best and hopes he has a speedy recovery.
Credit: Ritesh Jamkhedkar ritesh.jamkhedkar@secretariatsworld.com