Veteran jockey Neil Paine will be flown to Sydney in a body brace after suffering multiple injuries in a race fall in New Caledonia.

Paine, 51, broke his hands and a vertebra in his back as a result of the fall.

"He is being fitted with a body brace today to enable him to fly home on a commercial flight tomorrow," Racing NSW's jockey safety and welfare officer Maurice Logue said.

Paine, who rides trackwork at Randwick for Gai Waterhouse, has been a journeyman jockey with riding stints in Macau, Malaysia, Mauritius, Bahrain and Dubai.

Since starting out as an apprentice in 1980, Paine has ridden almost 50 stakes winners although he is rarely seen in the saddle on city racetracks these days.

But he has continued to travel far and wide for opportunities and while New Caledonia is one of racing's outposts, Paine has been a regular visitor to the Pacific Ocean archipelago.

In 2005, Paine suffered a broken collarbone, six broken ribs, a chipped vertebra and a punctured lung when he was involved in a barrier trial mishap at Dubbo in central west NSW.