'I don't know when I'll be back, but I'll be back' - Jim Crowley vows to return to saddle next year following horror fall

Former champion jockey Jim Crowley has vowed to return to the saddle next year when speaking in public for the first time since suffering multiple fractures in a fall at York.

The 47-year-old, who took the jockeys' crown in 2016, sustained two broken bones in his leg and two fractures to his pelvis when Almeraq came down just over a furlong out in the Garrowby Stakes on September 7.

Crowley returned to his home in West Sussex on Monday following a lengthy hospital stay after the incident, which also led to Trever Whelan breaking his leg in three places after his mount Tiger Bay was brought down.