GoFundMe page launched to help fallen country track rider Alannah Logie
Trainer Kate Goodrich organised the GoFundMe page for Alannah Logie after a horse she was riding reared and flipped on top of her, causing multiple facial fractures.
Goodrich said Logie rode for multiple small trainers at Kilmore and Seymour, providing a valuable service at a time in which track riders are scarce all over the state.
Logie also rehomes both standardbred and thoroughbred horses, paying for their care out of her own pocket. Funds raised from the GoFundMe drive will help with costs of feeding the rehomed animals while she is unable to work.
Trainers Stephen Brown, Dwayne Reid, Lee and Shannon Hope have contributed to the cause while an anonymous donor has also tipped in $5000.
Logie's mother Gai posted a message on the page to thank all that have helped her daughter.
'Alannah has to undergo several surgeries she has already had one but is too swollen for the others yet,' she wrote.
'She has crushed every bone on the right hand side of her skull and is lucky not to be blind and brain damaged on that side.
'I cannot explain how much this means to us to have so much support.
'I'm so lucky that my daughter is still here and even luckier to have you all, thank you so much again from the bottom of our hearts.'
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