After having been catapulted from his sulky, twisting in the air and landing on his back during a harness race last week, driver John Dunn has said things could have been much worse.
As explained in a report by stuff.co.nz, Dunn did not sustain any broken bones in the three-horse spill which marred Westport Raceway’s program of live racing last Friday.
The article has cited Dunn as saying that he is still “very sore,” but that he escaped major injury. Luckily, the same can be said for Dunn’s mount in the race, Benio Billie, who “is a bit battered and bruised, but otherwise fine” according to the pilot.
In the stuff.co.nz piece, Dunn explains what the crash was like. Dunn was trailing a couple of horses up front when one of them went down and triggered the three-horse spill. Dunn was in an extremely vulnerable position and couldn’t avoid the fallen horses. He was catapulted out of his racebike and up into the air when he became involved in the crash.
“When the shaft of the cart dug into the ground, that's when it sort of slingshotted me higher in the air," Dunn said, later adding, "Once I went on my side then my back (in the air) I knew I was going to be in for a bad landing."
The report states that all of the horses involved – Glencarrigh, Can He Pay and Benio Billie – were lucky to not sustain serious injuries. The article did not give an update on the other drivers – Murray Pash and Samantha Ottley – that were involved in the spill. Both had been taken to hospital after the incident.
Please join Standardbred Canada in wishing all involved a quick and complete recovery from their injuries.
(With files from stuff.co.nz)
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