Racing: Mick Fitzgerald is to have a second operation on his neck following his fall in the John Smith's Grand National at Aintree.
The first eight-hour operation at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital on Sunday to realign three vertebrae and two discs was a success.
Fitzgerald, 37, sustained the injury after being unshipped from L'Ami at the second fence in the big race at Aintree on Saturday, a race he won on Rough Quest in 1996.
It is hoped Fitzgerald will be transferred to Nuffield Hospital nearer his Oxfordshire home in a few days but that will depend on the results of a further MRI scan today.
"It is reported that Mick's first operation has been a success, which was to stabilise the injury to his neck he sustained in the Grand National," a statement read from the Professional Jockeys Association official website ( www.jagb.co.uk).
"Today he will have a further MRI scan and from the results, it will be decided if he can be moved to a private hospital in the Liverpool area today.
"Later on in the week it is planned if his condition is satisfactory that he will be moved to Nuffield Hospital, which is closer to his home and family in Childrey, Oxfordshire.
"Jeremy Fairbanks, an orthopedic surgeon who performed a operation on a neck injury Mick sustained two years ago, will be performing a planned required second operation to Mick's neck."
The veteran jump jockey was sidelined for several months when he broke a bone in his neck in a fall at Market Rasen in July 2005.