Mick Fitzgerald will need a second operation on his neck after recovering from his gruelling eight-hour first operation following a crashing fall in the Grand National.

After suffering his heavy fall from L'Ami on Saturday, Fitzgerald needed an eight-hour operation on his neck at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital on Sunday.

The 37-year-old had the surgery to realign three vertebrae and two discs, and that was said to have been a success.

Further scans will be needed before the veteran can be moved to Nuffield Hospital nearer his Oxfordshire home, where a second operation has been pencilled in.

"It is reported that Mick's first operation has been a success, which was to stabilise the injury to his neck he sustained in the Grand National," read a statement posted on the Professional Jockeys Association official website.

"Today he will have a further MRI scan and from the results, it will be decided if he can be moved to a private hospital in the Liverpool area today.

"Later on in the week it is planned if his condition is satisfactory that he will be moved to Nuffield Hospital, which is closer to his home and family in Childrey, Oxfordshire.

"Jeremy Fairbanks, an orthopedic surgeon who performed an operation on a neck injury Mick sustained two years ago, will be performing a planned required second operation to Mick's neck."

Fitzgerald's first neck injury came in July 2005 when he broke a bone in his neck following a fall at Market Rasen. 

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