O’NEILL INJURED IN FALL

Dane O’Neill is expected to make a full recovery despite requiring surgery after sustaining fractured ribs and vertebrae in a fall at Wolverhampton on Tuesday.

O’Neill, 47, was stretchered off the course after unseating from his mount Eagle Eyed Tom as the stalls opened in the 1m1½f handicap, the first race on Wolverhampton’s afternoon card.

The race was swiftly halted and declared void while medical assistance was provided to O’Neill, who remained conscious throughout the initial treatment and journey to hospital.

“Following his fall at Wolverhampton Dane was treated on the track before being transported by the racecourse ambulance to Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham,” O’Neill’s wife Laura wrote on social media on Wednesday morning.