“The arm is getting better and I go back to see the specialist two weeks on Thursday so hopefully I’ll be back riding in three weeks but we’ll see,” he told attheraces.

“Michael Foy (orthopaedic surgeon) knows his stuff and I’m not a doctor.”

Recalling the incident McCoy said: “The horse broke its shoulder halfway round the bend. I heard it snap and I thought for about three or four steps I’d get it pulled up but it just went down.

“After I heard the first snap I heard another snap and I knew my arm was broken and I knew the horse was in trouble as well.

“It was just one of those things. It was no-one’s fault. It wasn’t Worcester’s fault, it wasn’t the ground, it was just the way it went.”

There were complications with the injury as McCoy explained.

He said: “I got it pinned on the Thursday morning and came out of hospital on the Friday and on Saturday night I had compound muscle damage and it just started to bleed and it started to swell and I had to have it operated on Saturday night, Sunday morning and operated on again on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday.”