Beginner jockey Lauren Eager-Hawkins is “exhibiting indicators of enchancment” following remedy in crucial take care of a critical head damage she sustained at Worcester on Sunday.
Eager-Hawkins got here down aboard Faerie Cutlass on the third-last fence within the 2m4f handicap hurdle and was knocked out from the autumn, with screens put up whereas she was checked.
The Injured Jockeys’ Fund mentioned she stays on the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.
“She was unconscious for an prolonged time period, and as can be anticipated after this, Lauren has now entered a stage termed Put up Traumatic Amnesia (PTA),” they mentioned on Friday.
“This implies she is sleeping a variety of the time, with bouts of confusion, however can recognise and talk with relations for transient intervals.”
Eager-Hawkins’ mother and father are “extraordinarily grateful” for the “overwhelming quantity of help” they’ve acquired since her damage, added the Injured Jockeys’ Fund.