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This year’s galloping season came to an unpleasant and too early end for Swedish star rider Per-Anders Gråberg.
When SportExpressen arrives in Gråberg, he will remain in the hospital in Denmark, and he has just been informed that he will probably need surgery on one of his vertebrae.
How are you right now
– I have received morphine tablets, so now I feel quite good, he says.
– I just spoke with the doctor and they recommended that I have surgery on the fifth vertebra to have stability in everything. It doesn’t feel so much fun having to do neck surgery, but if you want it, I can do it. Right now they are planning that I can have surgery in Stockholm, where I have family and everything. Hopefully they can get me home somehow during the day. It will probably be an operation as seen now.
“I can’t blame anything”
It was in relation to the star rider trying to advance between two horses in the race that everything went wrong.
How did you experience what happened?
– I went through a gap between two horses in the race. The riot is pretty short and when I got to the middle of the door it started to close, the outside came in a bit and then I noticed it didn’t fit. I started braking but didn’t have time to do it in time but got stuck on the hind legs of the outer horse that tripped. He stumbled so much that I flew and landed on my head, he says.
– There is no one to blame. Can’t blame anything. This is something that can happen, fortunately it does not happen that often.
“Probably why I passed out”
Per-Anders Gråberg doesn’t remember much before waking up in hospital, but it is clear that he was kicked in the neck after landing.
– After releasing the horse, I don’t remember anything until I woke up in the hospital. I must have just passed out. Because I fell under my own horse, one of my legs had to be kicked in the neck. That’s probably why I passed out and got injured, he says.
“I don’t think about quitting smoking”
Now the goal is to let the injury heal and then go back to when the next season begins in spring 2021.
– This season is over. Since then, I have made it a point to take the time to allow the body to heal properly, so I hope to return for the premiere in late March or early April. There is no point in getting excited before then. I am no longer 20 years old, so keep in mind that the body will recover. So I have absolutely no idea not to keep racing, but you have to give the body a chance to recover.
Per-Anders Gråberg has recorded 1,378 career victories and has ridden a total of more than 136 million SEK.
