Popular jockey Peter Hutchinson has confirmed his latest riding injury is the one that has ended his career.
Speaking on Sydney’s Sky Sports Radio from his hospital bed in Melbourne, the 47-year-old said his leg was badly broken from a trackwork fall at Caulfield on Monday.
“It’s a spiral fracture in the tibia,” Hutchinson said.
“…it’s a career ender. We’re out of business.
“I’ve always come back fighting but I think this time’s the end of the line.”
Hutchinson said he would undergo surgery to insert a plate in his damaged leg once the swelling had subsided.
The son of former top international jockey Ron Hutchinson, Peter retired in 2002 prompted by seven racing related injuries in 18 months.
He made a return in 2008 and met with moderate success but was lately mostly riding trackwork for Robert Smerdon at Caulfield.
Hutchinson began his career in Adelaide as an apprentice with Colin Hayes and later moved to Melbourne where his biggest win came aboard Fraar in the 1993 Caulfield Cup.
Hutchinson’s fall was one of three trackwork incidents in Victoria this week with Jason Benbow suffering soft tissue damage to a shoulder at Caulfield and Eddie Cassar a broken wrist when a horse he was riding at Lloyd Williams’ Macedon Lodge stumbled.
