SALT LAKE CITY, UT— SEPTEMBER 6, 2018—Popular Idaho based jockey Nikeela Black is recovering at a Salt Lake City hospital after suffering serious injuries over the weekend.

Black, whose is also a Boise attorney, was riding in several races at the Eastern Idaho State Fair in Blackfoot on Sunday when the accident occurred.

"She's so strong, she has been hurt before," Black's husband Lee Abrams, told KTVB Channel 7 in Boise.

A jockey for nearly 15 years, Black gained notoriety as a leading rider at many race tracks.

"It sounds like she clipped heels with the horse on the outside of her, she was on the rail, and her horse went down, and we think that she maybe got run over by the horses behind her," says Abrams.

Abrams says there is no footage of the accident itself but video shows Black's horse coming around the corner without her.

Black was immediately airlifted to Salt Lake City for treatment.

According to Abrams Black has a partially collapsed lung, fractures in her neck and is paralyzed from her ribs down.

"They haven't said that it is permanent but definitely for the short term there is going to be no feeling or moving," says Abrams.

Luckily, she didn't sustain any head trauma and is able to talk and move her arms but doctors have indicated it will be a long recovery.

"We will have to make some changes to make the house wheelchair accessible, bathrooms things like that," says Abrams.

Abrams says he has no idea how much modifications to their home will cost, a GoFundMe page has been started to help with expenses. A goal of $25,000 has been set with more than $17,500 reached in the first two days.

Black will begin physical therapy as soon as she is released from the ICU.

"Her goal is to walk and ride again and nothing stops Nikeela. She will persevere through anything, that's just her mentality and it has been forever," says Abrams.