REPORTS Jim Cassidy might be lost to the racing game were premature after the grand slam-winning jockey sliced open a couple of fingers while gardening on Sunday, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.It says: ''I'm not looking at retirement,'' Cassidy said from the Prince Of Wales Private Hospital yesterday morning. ''I could ride with one hand, I'm not ready for the couch.''Cassidy's wife Vicki was bedside when the call arrived some 90 minutes out from the husband under going surgery. ''He is a lo
REPORTS Jim Cassidy might be lost to the racing game were premature after the grand slam-winning jockey sliced open a couple of fingers while gardening on Sunday, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
It says: ''I'm not looking at retirement,'' Cassidy said from the Prince Of Wales Private Hospital yesterday morning. ''I could ride with one hand, I'm not ready for the couch.''
Cassidy's wife Vicki was bedside when the call arrived some 90 minutes out from the husband under going surgery. ''He is a lot better than the reports suggested,'' Vicki Cassidy said. ''People had his fingers being chopped off. He is OK, it is not as bad as first thought.''
The wife has no doubt the man who is in elite company, having won Australian racing's ''big four'' - the Melbourne and Caulfield cups, the Cox Plate and Golden Slipper - will return to race riding.
''You know what Jimmy is like,'' Vicki Cassidy said. ''Shoulders, back, knees, he has had all those injuries. He'll be right, he always is.''
Cassidy's ring finger was cut through to the nerve when the motorised clipper struck and ''the big finger was also cut open'', the jockey revealed yesterday.
''They were a little mangled but I'll be right,'' Cassidy assured from the hospital bed. ''Another comeback is on the way.''