Group One winning jockey Michelle Payne has a minor neck fracture and will miss the remainder of Melbourne's autumn carnival following a race fall on Saturday.Payne's manager Phillip Roost said Payne was wearing a neck brace and would be out of the saddle for up to eight weeks."I spoke to her briefly yesterday and she has a slight fracture to the C2 vertebra," Roost said.Payne came to grief to when her mount Suite Success clipped the heels of Hallowell Belle near the 900m of last Saturday's Blue
Group One winning jockey Michelle Payne has a minor neck fracture and will miss the remainder of Melbourne's autumn carnival following a race fall on Saturday.
Payne's manager Phillip Roost said Payne was wearing a neck brace and would be out of the saddle for up to eight weeks.
"I spoke to her briefly yesterday and she has a slight fracture to the C2 vertebra," Roost said.
Payne came to grief to when her mount Suite Success clipped the heels of Hallowell Belle near the 900m of last Saturday's Blue Diamond Prelude for fillies.
After taking evidence from James Winks (Jessica Rose) and Craig Williams (Hallowell Belle) stewards adjourned the inquiry to a date to be fixed.
A three-time Group One winning jockey, Payne will be looking to return to race riding in time for the height of the cream of Sydney's autumn carnival.
Last year she won the Group One AJC Sires' Produce Stakes on Yosei who she also piloted to victory in the Thousand Guineas at Caulfield last spring.
Her first Group One win was on the Bart Cummings-trained Allez Wonder in the 2009 Toorak Handicap at Caulfield.