Southland horseman Nathan Williamson has suffered a serious injury after a fall during a race.<\/p>\n
Williamson was hurt following an incident near the finish of a race at Alexandra Park in Auckland last night.<\/p>\n
He was driving Captains Mistress when he was unseated from his cart close to the winning post and fell on to the track, Harness Racing New Zealand reported.<\/p>\n
Williamson received immediate medical attention on course before being transported to hospital, where he remains under care.<\/p>\n
Harness racing broadcaster Greg O’Connor said Williamson had been placed in a coma, which was normal protocol with a serious head injury.<\/p>\n
Williamson grew up in North Otago and, with parents Phil and Bev and brothers Matt and Brad, has had a long association with harness racing.<\/p>\n
HRNZ chief executive\u00a0Brad Steele\u00a0said the sport\u2019s thoughts were with Williamson, his wife Katie, their family, and all those affected.\u00a0\u2014 Allied Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Southland horseman Nathan Williamson has suffered a serious injury after a fall during a race. Williamson was hurt…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-182303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182303","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=182303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}