Exciting apprentice Aaron Chatrie is currently recovering in the Spanish Town Hospital after he sustained a broken bone in the right hip following a motor vehicle accident on the Newlands main road yesterday morning.

According his apprentice master and Welfare Officer at the Jamaica Racing Commission, Ina Lawrence, who visited the injured jockey yesterday, said Chatrie also appeared to have suffered lacerations to his chin and head.

She also noted that although the rider was in pain, he was in high spirits and found time to joke, saying: “Miss I just want two painkillers to ride today, as I have seven live rides.”

Chatrie was driving with a number of passengers in his car on his way to Caymanas Park for early morning exercise when his vehicle collided head on with another.

The passengers of both vehicles were taken to hospital for treatment.

At present Chatrie is the leading apprentice with 57 wins, which places him in second position in the jockeys’ championship behind defending champion Omar Walker on 77 winners.

The 22-year-old jockey is the second rider from his batch of graduates to have been sidelined in recent times, following that of Kareem Richardson-Garvey, who is recuperating from a near fatal fall during the running of a race on August 25.

Meanwhile Walker highlighted yesterday’s 10-race programme with three winners — Hypnotica for trainer Troy Alexander in the first race; Flavia Victory for Sydney Watson in the fifth, and Shining Gold for Howard Jaghai in the sixth race.

Dane Nelson also had a good day, closing the programme with a double — Ministerofjustice for Michael McIntosh in the ninth and Call For A Cat for Carl Anderson in the 10th and final.