“She is in an induced coma but they are going to try to bring her out of that today.
“She has a fracture in her skull and there might also be a broken bone in her neck region but they haven’t been able to to X-ray her for that yet.
“But she has movement in her limbs so that is good news.
“We will know more today when she is brought out of the coma and obviously we are all very worried. But she is very tough.
“She rides plenty of horses that often can’t win because she accepts rides other people don’t want, she just loves riding.”
Rogerson was not at fault in Sunday’s accident with French jockey Corentin Berge, who has recently started riding in New Zealand, suspended by stewards for four weeks for allowing his horse to move out and check Rogerson’s mount with 400m to run.
“We have had so many well wishers and we hope to have an update for them in the next 24 hours,” says Rogerson.
Bailey rode a winner, her third for the season, earlier on the Arawa Park programme and sits on 58 career wins.
Michael Guerin wrote his first nationally published racing articles while still in school and started writing about horse racing and the gambling industry for the Herald as a 20-year-old in 1990. He became the Herald’s Racing Editor in 1995 and covers the world’s biggest horse racing carnivals.