Toomey continues to progress

Brian Toomey “continues to show positive signs of recovery” from serious head injuries he suffered in a fall at Perth on July 4.

The young rider was hurt when the Lisa Harrison-trained Solway Dandy fell heavily three out in the Book Now For 2014 Perth Festival Conditional Jockeys’ Handicap Hurdle.

His progress is such that he was transferred at the weekend from Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, where he underwent an operation to reduce swelling on his brain a few days after his fall, to the James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough.