Champion Australian jockey Hugh Bowman was taken to hospital but remarkably avoided serious injury after a scary fall in Hong Kong.
The man who famously rode Winx to 32 of her 37 career wins was overseas racing in Saturday’s 1400m Class One Panasonic Cup on Saturday when his mount Tuchel faltered and fell.
Bowman posted an update on social media assuring fans he was OK, but the same cannot be said for Tuchel, who could not be saved from his fatal injuries.
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“Thank you everyone for all the well wishes,” Bowman wrote.
“I have a few fractures, nothing too serious thank God.”
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Hong Kong jockey Keith Yeung Ming-lun was also caught in the crosshairs of the nasty incident, but managed to escape serious injury as well.
Bowman hit the turf when Tuchel, the pre-race second favourite, broke down at the 125m and collided with Yeung’s Find My love.
Vets had to euthanise Bowman’s five-year-old ride in front of the grandstand.
Hugh Bowman was taken to hospital after a fall. Credit: Getty
The sad scene took the gloss of 21-year-old South African Luke Ferraris’s win off, who had no sight of the fall from the front of the field, where his mount Sauvestre sat comfortably.
“He had the light weight, and the race sort of mapped to suit him,” Ferraris said of Sauvestre after the race.
“When he gets his own way in front, he sort of pricks his ears, and he sort of comes back to you, and then you can do what you want with him.
“He pricked ears around the bend. He got a nice breather in, and then with the lightish weight, when I clicked him, the response was immediate.”
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