Lye, 25, is recovering at home after a serious fall at Garry White's stables on Tuesday, June 9, left her with a 71/2cm split on her liver that landed her in intensive care for two days and in hospital for five.

She was returning to the stables at 6am after working 2yo colt Scottish Border when he spooked and threw her off, with the injury occurring when the horse lashed out and kick- ed her as she fell.

White, his stable foreman Wendy and Lye's partner Dean Singleton, also a jockey, were on the scene immediately and looked after her until an ambulance arrived.

"I'd just finished working the horse and I was a couple of steps from the back driveway of Garry's stable complex when he just spooked and I fell off to the side," Lye said.

"He saw me as I was falling and he kicked me, with one foot getting me in the top half of the leg and the other one just above the hip.

"I was wearing the vest but he kicked right underneath it ? he's not a bad horse, I ride him every day, he just happened to have a spook and it was just one of those embarrassing falls really, I shouldn't have fallen off.

"I saw it coming at the last second, and then I just remem- ber lying on the ground looking up and thinking oh my God, I've done it this time."

The fall was the last in a ser- ies of seven mishaps, including a dislocated shoulder at Bega and bumps and bruises from a tumble at Wyong.

With the kick also slicing the top of her bile duct, she was not even allowed as much as a glass of water for three days as doctors decided it would be dangerous for her liver to be allowed to function.

"My bile was leaking into me and they were really worried about that, they had to see those levels coming down before they'd let me out of hospital and now I'm not allowed to do anything," she said.

"I'm not allowed to pick (my daughter) Dakota up because it's 1/2cm away from my main artery and if it keeps tearing in the same direction it will go through that and them I'm in more trouble.