\u201cIt was quite a strange feeling, like my brain was heavy and a bit foggy but I am feeling better now.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have been back riding track work and I\u2019d like to be back riding next week if I can, but I have to pass the concussion test first.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bosson announced a short-lived retirement last December but soon found form upon his return in August and ended up in the unusual position of being on top of the premiership in October.<\/p>\n
He has rarely taken enough rides, sometimes because of his weight, in the last decade to be a premiership contender but was looking like one until the Avondale mishap.<\/p>\n
His premiership chances have all but disappeared with defending champion Craig Grylls racing to an 18-win lead in the jockey\u2019s ranks over Bosson, who sits second equal with Joe Doyle on 28 wins for the season.<\/p>\n
Bosson also sits on 99 career Group 1 wins in New Zealand and while it is only a matter of time before he reaches the century here, he will have limited opportunities between now and the end of the year.<\/p>\n
The TAB Mufhasa Mile at Trentham on Saturday week and the Cambridge Stud Zabeel Classic at Ellerslie on Boxing Day are the only Group 1 races still to be run this year, although the Group 1 action kicks off quickly in the New Year with the TAB Telegraph at Trentham on January 3.<\/p>\n
Rogerson making progress<\/p>\n
Injured apprentice Bailey Rogerson continues to make progress in Waikato Hospital.<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old was injured in a race fall at Rotorua 12 days ago and spent several nights in the Intensive Care Unit there in an induced coma, because of concerns about possible complications from a head injury.<\/p>\n
She was brought out of that coma last week and moved to the Neurological Ward, where her condition has continued to improve.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was taken off the breathing machine and has even started to eat a bit so we are hoping the feeding tubes can be taken out soon too,\u201d her father Gary Rogerson told the Herald.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe is making slow progress but a little every day and while she is sleeping a lot, she can communicate when she is awake.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs long as she keeps making those little improvements, we will be happy, but we realise these things take time.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u2019s Racing Editor in 1995 and covers the world\u2019s biggest horse racing carnivals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt was quite a strange feeling, like my brain was heavy and a bit foggy but I am…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15408,83056,85785,6028,22773,13982,14568,15221,12815,11688,111,139,69,85784,3512,34592,2244,1527,94409,213,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-154488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-almost","9":"tag-bailey","10":"tag-bosson","11":"tag-champion","12":"tag-comeback","13":"tag-continues","14":"tag-horse","15":"tag-improve","16":"tag-jockey","17":"tag-nears","18":"tag-new-zealand","19":"tag-newzealand","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-opie","22":"tag-racing","23":"tag-ready","24":"tag-resume","25":"tag-return","26":"tag-rogerson","27":"tag-sports","28":"tag-to"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}