UPDATED INFO FOR JULIO BRIMO

Jockeys to contribute to Julia Brimo Fund

Posted: Thursday, November 19, 2009 3:43 PMJULIA BRIMO Pat Lang photo Jockeys across North America on November 28 will be asked to donate one mount fee to the Julia Brimo Fund, which was set up to help the injured rider with rehabilitation expenses.Jockeys also will wear two patches on their boots that day, one that reads “Julia” and the other reading “PDJF” for the Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund.Brimo, the 2003 Sovereign Award winner as Canada’s outstanding apprentice jockey, suffered head and back injuries in a spill at Keeneland Race Course on October 30. She is undergoing rehabilitation in Toronto at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and is expected to be transferred to the Lyndhurst Centre, a spinal cord rehabilitation facility.The Julia Brimo Fund was established at Fifth Third Bank by Cindy Werner, wife of trainer Ronny Werner. Donations can be made by sending a check made out to the Julia Brimo Fund to Cindy Werner at 1116 Flat Rock Road, Louisville, KY, 40245.Churchill Downs | Posted 11/9/2009, 5:31 pm

Aid fund set up for Brimo rehabilitation

By Byron King (Daily Racing Form, http://drf.com)

A fund has been established at Fifth Third Bank in Kentucky to assist with the cost of rehabilitation for jockey Julia Brimo, who suffered head and back injuries in an Oct. 30 spill at Keeneland.

Brimo, who galloped for trainer Ronny Werner and rode some of his horses at Turfway Park earlier this fall, continues to improve each day but still faces a long road to recovery, the trainer's wife, Cindy Werner, said Monday. Cindy Werner was responsible for establishing the aid fund.

Surgery last week on Brimo's fourth and fifth vertebrae went well, Werner said, and Brimo is off a respirator and can speak with visitors as she recovers in the intensive care unit at University of Kentucky Medical Center in Lexington.

Werner said Brimo has movement in her extremities.

"It's still coming back," she said.

Although the bulk of Brimo's riding career has come in Canada, where she won a Sovereign award as the top apprentice jockey of 2003, she has spent recent years in Kentucky, working as an exercise rider and jockey.

Contributions can be made at any Fifth Third Bank, with donations payable to the Julia Brimo Fund. Checks made payable to the Julia Brimo Fund can also be mailed to Cindy Werner at 1116 Flat Rock Road, Louisville, Ky., 40245.

Sending Prayers to family and connections of Amanda and Jill

The only time that horse injuries and deaths become unimportant (at least  to me ) is when people get hurt. . . I can't imagine the horror and fear that besets mothers, fathers, siblings and friends when they witness a jockey go down. If you're so inclined, include these women in your prayers and thoughts.

Spill leaves jockey Brimo in critical condition

By Byron King

John Engelhardt/Lang Photography

Jockey Julia Brimo, 33, was listed in critical condition Friday at University of Kentucky Hospital in Lexington.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Jockey Julia Brimo was in critical condition at a Lexington hospital late Friday afternoon after suffering injuries when her mount, Golden Stride, fell after clipping heels in the first race at Keeneland.

Brimo, advancing up the inside, fell to the Polytrack main track, and Golden Stride tumbled to the ground, appearing to strike the fallen Brimo. All other horses appeared to avoid the rider, although Gihon and jockey Larry Sterling bumped into Golden Stride as that horse tried to regain his footing in the 1 1/8-mile race for maiden $30,000 claiming horses.

University of Kentucky Hospital would not release any details on Brimo's injury, other than her being in critical condition, but trainer Mark Casse, for whom Brimo worked previously, said his ex-wife, Jennifer Christiansen, was at the hospital with Brimo and informed him that she had suffered head and back injuries.

Aqueduct apprentice still in ICU

By David Grening

Apprentice jockey Amanda Casey remained in the intensive care unit of North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, N.Y., Saturday morning with internal bleeding and a bruised liver, according to her agent.

Casey, 26, was kicked in the side by her mount Karakorum Jete in the paddock prior to Friday's ninth race at Aqueduct. Earlier in the day, Casey had recorded her first win from 27 mounts since returning from a shoulder injury that forced her to miss three months.

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