Jockey Peter Toole wakes from medicated coma
PETER TOOLE woke from a medicated coma overnight Monday into Tuesday.
Toole has been undergoing treatment at the Walton Centre for Neurology in Liverpool since a heavy fall at Aintree on Saturday.
Peter Toole: woke overnight
PICTURE: GettyCharlie Mann, Toole's employer who has been receivingregular updates from the jockey's family, said on Tuesday morning: "Peter woke up last night and has now been placed back under. We'll know more later today.
"Yesterday's CT scan was negative - that's good news," Mann added.
Toole was allowed to wake gradually through the night by doctors, having been in a medicated coma since Saturday.
Toole was injured after 100-1 shot Classic Fly fell at the first fence in the John Smith's Maghull Novices' Chase and has since been on life-support with bleeding on the right side of his brain.
Mann on Monday paid tribute to the conditional jockey who has racked up 30 winners this season and lives on-site at Mann's Lambourn base.
Mann said: "Peter's a smashing lad, he's one of the mainstays of the stable and everyone is feeling down and I am sure they will continue to do so for a while because it is a bad injury, there is absolutely no doubt about that."
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