Current Birmingham Brummies recruit Ben Barker is dealing with a spell off the bike – having undergone emergency surgical procedure following Thursday night time’s 50-40 defeat at Sheffield.
The drama got here in Warmth Six when the Curtis Sport Brummies’ reserve clouted the again straight fence at excessive velocity.
By some means, the Brit stayed on his machine and rode the rest of the race out, regardless of mimicking a bucking bronco for the remainder of the opening lap.
Barker did handle to finish one additional race in a while, which noticed him maintain off former Birmingham man Justin Sedgmen for third, however after feeling loads of discomfort in a while, Barker then needed to have his appendix eliminated.
Showing on the Ben Barker Racing Fb web page, an announcement mentioned: “Ben is dealing with a spell off the bike having undergone emergency surgical procedure to take away his appendix.
“He was in some extreme discomfort, he pushed via to finish the assembly however knew one thing wasn’t proper.
“He would name 111 as soon as he returned house and was advised to go straight to A&E, which he did, and was knowledgeable he would wish to have his appendix eliminated.
“He had profitable surgical procedure this (Friday) afternoon and is now in restoration.
“He’ll now be off the bike for some time while he recovers and in typical Ben trend is decided to do every little thing he can to be again preventing match ASAP.”
Birmingham are working exhausting to discover a substitute for his or her journey to Belle Vue on Monday (July 7, 7.30pm).
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