Victorian harness racing trainer and track rider Alannah Logie is making steady progress in her recovery, just over a month after a freak trackwork accident left her with multiple facial fractures and a long list of injuries.

The Kilmore horsewoman was injured on June 30, when a galloper she was walking to the track “went up without warning and flipped straight over” – landing its 600kg frame directly onto her face.

“The wither part of the horse’s body landed straight on my face,” Logie said.

“The ambulance took me to the Royal Melbourne Hospital where they found I had seven fractures and breaks,” she said.

“I had stitches to put my ear back on because it was hanging half off, potentially from the helmet forcing down on my ear when it took the impact. I also had surgery to repair my lip, which was all sewn back up, and my eye muscle was entrapped in the fractures, so they had to work on that.

“After my second surgery I now have two plates – one in my cheek bone holding the full jaw break and one above my eye holding the socket together.”

Logie’s hospital stay was further complicated by allergic reactions to several medications, and it was almost four weeks before she could return home to the property she shares with her partner, harness racing trainer-driver Corey Bell.

“I’ve been home from surgery just over two weeks. I was bedridden up until last Sunday (Aug 3) and this week I’ve come on in leaps and bounds,” she said.

“I have been able to go and watch Corey at the track work our team and gently have a sit on one. I even got to go and have dinner with Corey and my best friend last night, so I hope to be back to it all again soon and on the improve each day.”

In addition to trackriding gallopers and helping Bell with his team, Logie also retrains and rehomes retired standardbreds and rehabilitates horses of all breeds.

“Corey and my mum (Gaye) have done a massive job at home keeping horses racing and feeding all of my special retired horses,” Logie said.

“Corey has done the biggest job ever with our team. I’m so proud that his horse Sea Hawke has now won four out of his last five – he was a $1000 purchase and was unlucky not to have won five from five,” she said.

“He’s so underrated as a driver and trainer, but he does the best job getting the best out of the horses. He loves and cares about them so much, just as much as I do.

“I have a few thoroughbred and standardbred rehomers I was in the midst of doing and a couple of rescues we are rehabilitating, but my role’s had to take a back seat for the time.

“I want to say a special thank you to everyone who has supported me – a lot of the trainers I ride for have done so much.”

Logie said she was especially grateful to Kilmore thoroughbred trainer Kate Goodrich, who established a GoFundMe after the accident.

“It really has helped feed my horses so much. We go through about 40 bales a week and with my medical bills it took a huge pressure off.”

The GoFundMe campaign to assist Logie remains open at: https://www.gofundme.com/f/please-help-track-work-rider-allanah-logie-zt8v8