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Article: TOP JOCKEY IN INTENSIVE CARE AFTER HUNTING PLUNGE.
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- New Zealand Herald (Auckland, New Zealand)
- Article date:
- May 21, 2008
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Top jockey Michael Walker was in intensive care last night after falling more than 10 metres into a gorge while pig hunting.
Walker had to spend the night in the bush as one of two friends made the long trek out to raise the alarm.
The 24-year-old was winched from a steep gorge at Okau, Taranaki, yesterday morning.
He had slipped down a steep slope, before falling a further eight metres into a narrow gorge.
He suffered serious head injuries and, it is understood, a ruptured spleen and damaged shoulder.
Taranaki Rescue Helicopter pilot David Manduell said Walker was saved from worse injuries by the dead pig he was carrying, ...