Rider on road to recovery and looking forward to home

Henry Brooke could not wait to relive the incident at Hexham on Saturday that put him in hospital when he was woken from his induced coma.

Brooke is recovering in Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary from a fall on Old Storm that was serious enough for him to require transportation by air ambulance and for the racing programme to be pushed back an hour and three-quarters.

Giving his first interview since the fall, he told the Racing Post on Tuesday: "I don't remember the fall at all and I can't remember the air ambulance or any of that, but when I woke up in hospital I wanted to see it for myself. I had to write it on a piece of paper, and it was found for me on a phone.