Trainer-Driver Taylor Ford can be set aside after a freak accident for a longer period, while he led a horse in the Parwan training facilities of champion horsewoman Jodi Quinlan.
Quinlan spoke with Thetrots.com.au and described the frightening incident that the 27-year-old left with head and necksels.
“She led a horse in the stables and it threw his head up in the air and came down and put her right on the side of the head,” Quinlan said about the incident of August 30.
“It hit her tidy. She didn’t respond for a while. I had trouble breathing her well. I worked on her for a while until the ambulance came, and she was in and out of consciousness for a while.”
After the medical team arrived, Ford was rushed to the Royal Melbourne Hospital.
“There was an ambulance and two paramedics. They hurried her directly to Royal Melbourne. They did some CT scans and MRIs. We are still waiting for the results of other tests, but so far it has been found that she has a decent main knock, so she has a bad chudding. But her neck has two bulging drives.”
Ford stays in a neck brace and is waiting for further specialized advice.
“We are going back to the orthopedic specialist on Wednesday to see what the Take is in the neck, and we will learn more about a plan that is progressing. They are not sure if it is a swell thing that can fall on time and disappear itself.
“She has had quite a few tests, but the neck is the care. The other injuries are a time -raising matter. With her head it is a typical main injury and she is very tired. She feels good for an hour and no longer touches steam. So she can’t do anything with it and the spinal cord.”
Quinlan admitted that the incident left her badly.
“I was scared. It was bizarre because she just led a horse back. I happened to walk out of the back entrance and I heard her and I looked and she went to the ground. Of course I was within a few seconds and she was not -and the part that didn’t make me that way, but it was more than 20 minutes.
“If I couldn’t let her respond and breathe well, it just really blew me away. In those situations, your adrenaline takes over and you do what you have to do, but it touches you when you walk away.
“It hurts me as far as the work goes, because Taylor is clearly my foreman and she did all the fast work. She always drove the pacemaker or vice versa, and it is now a bit harder for me because I have to work them myself while she also brought her to all the agreements.”
Ford found reason to smile on Sunday evening when she landed her first training doubles in Victoria, with Justlik dave and Precious Belle won in Cranbourne with Quinlan in the Sulky.
“It was bittersweet because she went there, she knew she couldn’t help and touched the horses. And justlikedav, he is her baby. He is named after Dave Medhurst who helped Taylor when he was young. He died in a car accident, so she got this horse at the sale and called Tasbred.
“It was hard for her to go there and not to be able to drive him or do something with him. But it was extra special because it was Dave last week, so she was pretty emotional.”
For Quinlan there is lighting mixed with perspective.
“She feels bad luck, but I will tell you that she is very lucky, because at a certain moment I thought it was and go,” she said.
Ford has trained 27 career winners and driven 138 in a career that includes more than a decade.
Through Bronte NieuwenburgFor Harness Racing Victoria
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