Before the peak of the Czech obstacle season, Bartoš would like to be in the saddle again. “Pardubická is planned, even fourteen days before that in the Gran Premio Merano, where I would attack the fourth victory with L’Estran,” the jockey who won the Velká Pardubická in 2019 told the iSport.cz server.
He sat in his saddle again last year, but fell and broke his pelvis. He got together from this accident, but recently another big carom came in Italy, when the gelding of South Africa fell under the last obstacle. Bartoš’s thoracic vertebra fracture was not discovered until examination after his return to the Czech Republic.
“It was impossible to operate because I already have three bolts in my chest from the seventh vertebra down, it has to heal so conservatively. Now I am in home care, I wear a carapace, I lie down and so on.
Severe falls are increasingly being felt on it. “At twenty-five, you’re young, rubbery, and now every fall breaks something. It’s worse, you can’t stop age. But I still feel I have it, I don’t think about any end. We’ll see how the treatment goes. If I do, I want to continue. If “There will be some problems, so maybe … It depends on the health condition, which will allow me. But I still have a taste,” said the three-time winner of the Great Pardubice.
