Amateur jockey Lorna Brooke who died aged 37 to have Cheltenham race run in her honour Mirror 5 hrs ago
Cheltenham will honour the late Lorna Brooke at tomorrow’s Hunter Chase meeting.
The much-loved amateur rider died aged 37 on April 19 as a result of a spinal injury sustained in a fall at Taunton earlier in the month.
Brooke was airlifted to hospital after the incident involving a horse named Orchestrated, owned and trained by her mother Lady Susan Brooke.
The penultimate contest on Friday s seven-race card at 7.45pm has been named the Lorna Brooke Open Hunters’ Chase.
One trainer with a runner is Philip Rowley, who saddles Optimised, runner-up in 2019.
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