{"id":294501,"date":"2023-10-26T22:24:10","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T22:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/?p=294501"},"modified":"2023-10-26T22:24:10","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T22:24:10","slug":"miracle-jockey-who-died-and-came-back-to-life-now-set-for-new-role-in-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/horse-racing\/miracle-jockey-who-died-and-came-back-to-life-now-set-for-new-role-in-racing\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Miracle’ jockey who died and came back to life now set for new role in racing"},"content":{"rendered":"
Jockey Brian Toomey was declared dead by paramedics following a horrific racing fall in 2013 – but he's defied the odds to gain a training licence ten years later.<\/p>\n
Once a promising young rider, a fall in a Perth huddle race led to an injury so serious that Toomey was pronounced dead for six seconds by medical officials.<\/p>\n
He spent two weeks in an induced coma and had part of his skull removed to reduce swelling – with his survival chances put at 3%.<\/p>\n
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Against all the odds he made a recovery to resume his racing career – and now has completed BHA modules to be granted a training licence a decade on from the fall.<\/p>\n
The 34-year-old has said: "My injury was back in 2013 when I spent six months in hospital then it took more than a year to recover it was such a serious head injury.<\/p>\n
"I got my licence to be a jockey again 704 days later and rode for nearly a season but trainers and owners were just a bit too worried to give me an opportunity in case I got a fall again."<\/p>\n
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Now planning to head to the sales to find horses to begin his training career, Toomey has a new purpose in the sport.<\/p>\n
He added: "I have a few who have said they will support me by sending horses but I now have to sell myself.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know I\u2019m the luckiest man in the world. I have to live with what happened to me forever. I have no effects from it.<\/p>\n
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Sky Sports is bringing you 500 live football games to watch, as well access to Cricket, Golf, F1, Boxing, NFL, NBA and more across eight<\/span> dedicated channels. Sky Sports is the <\/span>only way to watch all the action this year.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a322 a month<\/p>\n "My brain is fine. I don\u2019t believe I am a walking miracle but it\u2019s incredible what I have actually been through.<\/p>\n \u201cI lost consciousness for six seconds, I was in hospital for 157 nights, I got my licence back 704 days after the injury.<\/p>\n "They said I had a three percent chance of survival. It\u2019s a crazy fact."<\/p>\n