Liz Lalor 'making great progress' as she recovers from heavy point-to-point fall

Record-breaking amateur Liz Lalor is making good progress at home according to her father Dick following a heavy fall at a Ballingarry point-to-point last month.

The Clonmel rider was on board Tom Keating’s U Asking Me in the concluding event when the five-year-old crashed out at the final fence.

Lalor, the most successful female point-to-point rider of all time, is "getting better by the day" according to her father, as the 39-year-old continues her recovery from chest injuries.

“Liz is doing well," her father said. "She’s making good progress. She’s supposed to be taking it nice and easy but she’s not a person you can get to do that!

“She comes over here each day from home. She seems in good form. Each day she’s progressing and she’s out and about a bit in the afternoon. We’re delighted with her and hopefully she should be fine in a few weeks' time.”

Lalor became the all-time leading female point-to-point rider in FebruaryCredit: Patrick McCann (racingpost.com/photos)

Lalor became the all-time leading female point-to-point rider back in February when she broke Helen Bryce-Smith’s record on Read To Return at a meeting at Comea and has been leading lady rider on eight occasions.

She rode her first winner in 1999 at Kinsale and reached the century mark 20 years later on board Declan Queally’s Cloudy Morning in Nenagh, her first ride since giving birth to her daughter Alex five weeks earlier.

Lalor has also ridden 30 winners under rules in Ireland and has four successes to her name as a trainer, the first of which came in a Clonmel bumper in 2015 with De Name Escapes Me, who was subsequently sold to JP McManus.

Her father added: “I wasn’t allowed to visit her in hospital due to Covid and I was shocked originally when I first saw her, she was almost like a zombie. But she's made great progress since and improved immensely. She has a few things to go back to just get checked up on. They say everything should be fine eventually, so that’s good.”

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