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The 39-year-old’s injury-cursed career is over after a horror fall in 2022. Twenty-five time Group 1 winner Michael Walker has retired following an injury-cursed career, footnoted by brain trauma that happened after a horror fall at the Pakenham jumpouts in 2022. Despite having undertaken rehab ever since, the father-of-four has admitted he ...
Aug 9, 2022 · By Mitch Cohen 03:15am • 09 August 2022. Group 1 jockey Michael Walker has given an emotional update of his ongoing health battle while going into scary detail of his struggle with memory loss following a hard fall last week. Walker has been in hospital since last Tuesday after he was airlifted from Pakenham racecourse when he came down hard ...
Feb 15, 2023 · 10:59pm • 14 February 2023. 7. Comments. Popular Group 1 jockey Michael Walker has put family and future first, officially retiring from riding due to the ongoing effects of a brain injury sustained in a fall last year. Walker has struggled with memory loss, confusion and fatigue since the fall in a jumpout at Pakenham last August.
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Aug 9, 2022 · Walker continues to get monitored in hospital by doctors but is no closer to knowing when he will be able to leave or the long-term effects of his brain trauma. “I am still in hospital just trying to get through things,” Walker said. “I think there was bleeding on my brain and there is still a few different things to go on inside my head.
Jun 1, 2021 · Walker: 'I'll be back better than ever'. Fewer than three weeks after suffering a horrific leg injury in a race fall, jockey Michael Walker says he's counting his blessings and already planning his comeback to the saddle. The injury was so bad that the Group 1-winning rider almost had his leg amputated and required three surgeries in five days ...
Aug 4, 2022 · Docs continue to monitor Walker. In what is considered some positive news, doctors are slowly reducing the sedation of injured jockey Michael Walker, who remains in intensive care at the Alfred Hospital. The Victorian Jockey’s Association sent out an update on Thursday on Walker’s condition and while he is still heavily sedated after ...
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May 19, 2023 · Michael Walker. Fri May 19 2023 - 06:00. ... But, still, the club feels as if there is a hole where Ferguson used to be — or where his imagination, energy and direction used to be. It’s 10 ...
