Cindy Hutter, exercise rider and wife of trainer George Weaver, who was injured in a riding accident July 3 at the Oklahoma Training Track next to Saratoga Race Course is still unconscious but tests indicate she could regain consciousness over the next few days, according to Weaver.
"She is still unconscious, but she is stable," Weaver told BloodHorse Monday evening. "Based on imaging and tests, the doctors are expecting her to come around over the next few days, so we are just waiting."
Hutter, 57, was galloping a 3-year-old filly bred, owned and trained by Weaver named Vindatude when the filly collapsed and died of an apparent heart attack. Hutter was pinned underneath the filly, according to multiple reports, and taken to Albany Medical Center.
According to a Daily Racing Form report, Hutter suffers from small areas of bleeding in her brain that don't appear to be of concern to her doctors, broken ribs, a broken collarbone, and has a lung injury. Hutter, who married Weaver 20 years ago, is a lifelong horseperson who began galloping horses for trainer D. Wayne Lukas in 1987.
Vindatude, a New York-bred daughter of Mshawish, won her racing debut June 26 at Belmont Park. She captured a one-mile maiden claiming race on the turf by 2 1/2 lengths. Weaver also raced Vindatude's dam, Vinda, and has bred two other winners out of the mare.
