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Champion Australian jockey Hugh Bowman is facing a stint on the sideline after he broke his right shoulder and fractured multiple vertebrae when a horse he was riding broke down at Sha Tin on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Winx\u2019s jockey has been riding in Hong Kong for the past year and is second on the jockeys\u2019 premiership behind Zac Purton with 21 wins this season.<\/p>\n
Bowman was speared to the turf in front of the grandstands when Hong Kong Derby runner-up Tuchel suffered catastrophic leg injuries. Unfortunately, Tuchel had to be euthanised.<\/p>\n
Bowman could consider himself to only have a broken right scapula and three fractured vertebrae after his horse went down and another runner went over the top of him.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have a few fractures, nothing too serious thank God,\u201d Bowman said in a tweet on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Earlier in the meeting, Bowman had won on Invincible Sage, which was the 600th Hong Kong winner for Makybe Diva\u2019s first trainer David Hall.<\/p>\n
But his fall could potentially sideline him until the new year and makes it highly unlikely he will feature Hong Kong\u2019s lucrative international meeting next month.<\/p>\n
\u201cI spoke to him on Sunday morning and he might be lucky and avoid any surgery,\u201d Bowman\u2019s manager Bryan Haskins said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe would love to be back for the international meeting, but the initial forecast is he will miss between four and eight weeks which means that will be difficult. I\u2019d say there\u2019s a chance he will rest up until Christmas and see how he\u2019s feeling in the new year.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bowman had been enjoying a brilliant start to the new season in Hong Kong, to put the pressure on Purton, the racing mecca\u2019s dominant force.<\/p>\n
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