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Skye Bogenhuber can't remember the first week after the accident in which she almost died.

Key points:

Skye Bogenhuber suffered a serious brain injury after a fall during a practice race in March
After months of rehab and despite the risk, she is now back riding horses, where she says she feels "at home"
Studies have shown horseracing is the most dangerous land-based occupation
The jockey was unconscious for two days. Her family didn't know if she was going to wake up.

"Apparently, one doctor came in and told my loved ones, 'They don't normally survive when they've had such a hard blow to the head'," she told the ABC.

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