Shelley Birkett aiming for quick return after crashing Yarmouth fall

Shelley Birkett is hoping to return to the saddle as early as next month despite sustaining a dislocated hip and broken collarbone in a crashing fall at Yarmouth last Tuesday.

The 24-year-old jockey came down a furlong out when her mount Spanish Mane, trained by her mother Julia Feilden, clipped heels in a 7f fillies' handicap.

Racing was delayed while Birkett was loaded into an ambulance and taken to the James Paget Hospital at Gorleston where she under went an operation to reset her hip.

Julia Feilden: 'Shelley is walking sound now and hopefully the collarbone will be fine in about four weeks'Credit: Gerry Cranham (racingpost.com/photos)

The jockey, who just over an hour earlier had steered Gas Monkey to win for her mother at the Norfolk track, is now mobile and hopes to be back race-riding in June.

Feilden said: "Shelley is walking sound now and hopefully the collarbone will be fine in about four weeks. It was quite an afternoon at Yarmouth as an hour after celebrating our winner with a glass of champagne I was in the back of an ambulance with Shelley.

"Many thanks to clerk of the course Richard Aldous, who gave us plenty of support while we were in hospital, including getting us both phone chargers as our phones had died and we couldn't contact anybody."

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