"He will have to learn to walk again, as is the way with head injuries," his wife, Ann, said in a Southland Thoroughbreds Facebook post.
Mr Mee (72) was helping in the shoeing of a young horse at Mosgiel on Tuesday when he was struck.
"The horse just lost it and knocked him down," Mrs Mee said.
"I don’t know how he survived it," she said yesterday.
Mrs Mee said surgeons at Dunedin Hospital had done an amazing job and she described her husband as a fighter.
"He is just so strong in the circumstances," she said in the Facebook post.
She had been overwhelmed by the support she had received from the wider community.
Mr Mee is clerk of course for several racing clubs.
Mr and Mrs Mee were to have been clerks of the course for a dual-code Beaumont Racing Club and Forbury Park Trotting Club meeting at Wingatui today.
They have been replaced by Sally McKay, of Invercargill.
A horse trained by Mr Mee, called Willpower, is due to run at today’s event, just before 3pm.
