Racing: Jockey's horrific fall

THE AMATEUR rider Nathan Rossiter was last night reported to have regained consciousness after a fall from Hever Golf Charmer in the opening hurdle race at Fontwell which had knocked him out for several hours.

Rossiter, 25, who has had only about a dozen rides and no winners in the last three seasons, lay on the turf after his mount fell at the second- last flight in the race won by Auburn Boy. He was taken away by ambulance to the intensive care unit of St Richards Hospital, Chichester.

A spokesman for the hospital said: "He was brought in unconscious and has had CT [computerised tomography] scans on his head and abdomen."