Footage of horse racing champion Jamie Kah appearing to collect a line of white powder has circulated on social media just a day after she announced her return to the sport.
Kah, 27, announced on Thursday that she was back in the saddle and preparing to return to racing three months after a horrific fall that resulted in a hospital stay for a brain hemorrhage and amnesia.
However, just a day later, damning race-industry photos are circulating on WhatsApp that appear to show Kah picking up a line of a white substance.
In one of the images, she can be seen in a gray robe with manicured white nails and her hand on her cheek as she smiles at the camera.
Racing champion Jamie Kah is pictured appearing to make a line of white fabric
An image circulating on WhatsApp that resembles Kah’s right hand distributing a heap of white powder
The amazing development comes just a day after she announced her racing return
News Corp reports that Kah is pictured with close friend and roommate Jacob Biddell, who is a greyhound trainer. He pouts for the photo in a ribbed cream turtleneck.
Another girl draws peace signs with her hands, holding a gray board on a marble kitchen table.
The second photo appears to show Kah’s hand – with the same manicured nails and gray sweater – using a plastic card to split a mound of white powder onto the plate seen in the first image.
There is also a bag of white powder and a vape next to the board on the same marble countertop.
Kah has yet to comment on news of the photos being published, and race insiders have told the Herald Sun she was unaware she was being photographed lining up the white substance.
Daily Mail Australia has contacted Kah’s management for comment.
Kah, a nine-time Group 1 winner, and fellow hoop champion Craig Williams were involved in a sickening race fall earlier this year that left her fighting for life.
Kah was rushed to hospital after the nauseating fall in March, which left her with a brain injury. She had to remain in an induced coma for several days to allow her brain to rest before undergoing a long rehabilitation program and finally being released from the hospital.
Kah said her partner, fellow hoops champion Ben Melham, told her her eyesight was so bad after the accident that she ran into walls
She was taken to hospital in critical condition after suffering a cerebral haemorrhage, broken wrist and broken foot following the fall at the Sires Produce Stakes at Flemington on 11 March.
Kah was kept in an induced coma for nearly a week to rest her brain, and returned to her farm on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula after a significant period in hospital.
“The main injury was a hemorrhage in the brain. I was in a coma for about five days,” she said in an interview with Channel 7 after she left the hospital to go home.
“I broke my wrist, which I only found out long after the fall. And my foot was broken, and I think my nose. But that wasn’t really relevant compared to the brain injury.
“When I fell I was told I couldn’t breathe for about 20 seconds or maybe more… I was put into an induced coma and then I couldn’t wake up because of the drugs I was on, I just kept sleeping.” It took ages for me to wake up.
“I whined about my wrist at Epworth (hospital) and then they X-rayed again. They said, “Your right wrist, it’s broken!”. So yes, I found out long after that my hand was broken because the focus was on straightening my head.”
Kah, pictured with the Group 1 Black Caviar Lightning trophy earlier in February
It’s safe to say that her brain went through some very serious trauma.
Kah doesn’t remember the fall, or even being at the track that day – much of the month after the incident is indeed a “blur” for the world’s top female jockey.
She can’t remember which hospital she was taken to by ambulance after the fall – the Royal Melbourne, where she was from March 11 to 20 – or the first few days after being transferred to Epworth.
Shockingly, Kah revealed that the injury to her brain was so extensive that she thought it was nearly 10 years ago when she began her stunning rise to stardom in her home state of Adelaide.
“I woke up in Epworth thinking I was 18 years old and I was living in Adelaide again,” she said.
‘I kept saying my address, that was my old home address in Adelaide. I remembered that, but they told me it was wrong, but I couldn’t remember where I lived.’