German champion Gehm in coma after fall

GERMAN champion jump jockey Peter Gehm is in an artificial coma following a fall on Monday morning when riding out for Christian von der Recke.

The rider, 35 today, was completing his final lot of the day and only doing a slow canter when he fell against a fence, suffering multiple injuries including damage to his spinal column.

Gehm, who recently made headlines in Britain when he took the wrong course aboard Registana in the Sporting Index Chase at Cheltenham, was flown by helicopter to a special clinic in Cologne.