A race fall at Gundagai on Friday left the 16-year-old with three fractures in his skull, a broken eye socket, a broken cheekbone, two fractures to his jaw, a fractured finger and a small blood clot near his brain.

But as the teenager walked unassisted to his father Peter's Thoroughbred Park racing stables yesterday morning, he acknowledged how different things could have been.

''It's better this than a broken neck or two broken legs or even worse, spine damage or a broken back or even something more serious,'' Lovelock-Wiggins said.

''It's not a bad result really, considering I've got a fractured skull. It could be a lot worse.''

His last memory of the fall that left him in this condition was seeing the Gundagai turf charging at him.

His mount Distant Field had just clipped the heels of a horse in front of him, sending Lovelock-Wiggins spiralling to the track.

A split second later another horse, ridden by his good friend Richard Bensley, clipped the fallen hoop's head with one of his hoofs.

The next thing Lovelock-Wiggins remembers is waking up in a Wagga hospital seven hours later, where his parents Peter and Sharon were by his bedside.

''When I fell I apparently had my eyes open on the track and was conscious but I don't remember any of that,'' he said.

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