FAMILY, friends and colleagues will gather to celebrate the life of jockey Lorna Brooke later this month. A celebration of Lorna’s life will be held at Ludlow Racecourse during and immediately after racing on Monday, May 24. Amateur jockey Lorna, 37, was riding Orchestrated for her mother, Lady Susan Brooke, who is based in Dolau, near Llandrindod Wells, when she fell at the third fence in the Pontispool Equine Sports Centre Handicap Chase in Taunton on April 8. Racing was delayed by more than hour as she was treated on track, before being transferred into an air ambulance. Lorna was taken to Southmead Hospital in Bristol for observation and tests on a suspected spinal injury. After complications she was placed in an induced coma the following day. She died 10 days later on April 19.
An amateur rider who trained near Llandrindod Wells died in hospital on Sunday following a fall at Taunton earlier this month. Lorna Brooke was riding Orchestrated for her mother, Lady Susan Brooke, who is based in Dolau, when falling at the third fence in the Pontispool Equine Sports Centre Handicap Chase on April 8. Racing was delayed by more than hour as she was treated on track, before being transferred into an air ambulance. Dolau village residents have been paid to the 37-year-old following the tragic news. Our thoughts are with Lorna’s family, Llanfihangel Rhydithon C.P. School said. She would always smile and wave at the children in the playground whilst riding past.