Aldo Domeyer
Jockey Aldo Domeyer made a winning return to action from injury at Durbanville on Saturday after being out for seven weeks, the result of slamming his back against the pens.
Domeyer scored the first upset of the afternoon when booting home the Black Minnaloushe 3yo Waiting For Rain for Milnerton trainer, Piet Steyn.
He beat his stablemate Belcourt Castle to win the sixth race.
Domeyer spoke to Gold Circle Publishing’s Michael Clower earlier this week and said that he had originally expected to be sidelined for no more than four weeks but said: “It was worse than I thought. I went to a neurosurgeon and found that I had a fracture in one of the discs in my spine.
“It is still not quite 100% but I’m nearly there and I can’t just sit around watching the other guys ride my horses. I am putting on weight!”
The 28-year-old, first choice jockey when Yogas Govender trained for Plattner Racing, will continue to ride for the stable for whom he won the 2013 J & B Met on Martial Eagle.
He said: “I am not sure who is going to take over there but they have asked me to stay on which is lovely.”
