Lorna Brooke winning on Moonlone Lane at Fairyhouse in 2015 \ Healy Racing
The racing industry was shocked and saddened on Monday when it was announced that British amateur rider Laura Brooke had passed away.
Brooke, aged just 37, had been airlifted to hospital following a fall on Orchestrated, trained by her mother Lady Susan Brooke, at Taunton on 8 April. The amateur jockey was taken to Southmead Hospital in Bristol due to a suspected spinal injury, but had to be placed in an induced coma last Friday due to complications with her treatment.
The news of her death was issued by the Injured Jockeys Fund on Monday in a statement which read: “It is with deep sadness that we have to share the tragic news that Lorna Brooke passed away yesterday.