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AMATEUR OR MEGASTAR, THE AMBULANCE STILL FOLLOWS
April 21, 2021 11:31 am
By Matt Stewart, Racing Editor
As
death of a female amateur jockey in
England last Sunday is a reminder of the unique risks of the only sport that has an ambulance at its tail.
Whether hero or toiler – like ill-fated
English amateur Lorna Brooke – the danger is the same, day in, day out.
In no other sport does the dark cloud hang lower and heavier and more relentless over its competitors. You wonder why they’re not always bright and cheery and helpful? Walk in their shoes.
I had lunch with a champion young jockey four or five years ago. A mutual friend, also a jockey, had suffered a near-fatal injury that left him with irreparable injuries.
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Lorna Brooke was a talented amateur jockey who rode 17 winners under rules in Britain and Ireland and took more than 400 rides.
Brooke also rode 40 point-to-point winners, often when carrying her mother s orange and brown colours, and travelled far and wide to pursue her passion from her base in the Welsh borders.
She made her debut under rules on Hag s Way as a teenager in February 2002 for her mother Lady Susan Brooke and celebrated her first winner aboard Super Nomad in the Ludlow Gold Cup Hunters Chase in April 2007 before the pair followed up at the track in March 2008.
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Amateur jockey Lorna Brooke died in the hospital on Sunday, reports
The Guardian, succumbing to injuries she sustained in a fall at Taunton Racecourse on April 8. The 37-year-old is the first jockey killed in a racing incident in Britain since 2005, when Tom Halliday fell at Market Rasen.
Racecourses around Britain observed a moment of silence on Monday, and jockeys wore black armbands.
Brooke was aboard Orchestrated, a horse trained and owned by her mother, Lady Susan Brooke, when she was unseated at the third fence on the course. She was treated on track before being airlifted to Southmead Hospital, where she was treated for suspected spinal injuries. Following complications, Brooke was placed into an induced coma, from which she never emerged.
Tuesday briefing: Playtime too late for British children Warren Murray
Top story: Children not learning to manage risk © Photograph: Guy Bell/Rex/Shutterstock Children develop independence and the ability to manage risk when they play unsupervised, say experts.
Good morning, Warren Murray with your first taste of the news for Tuesday.
Primary-age children in Britain are typically not being allowed to play outside on their own until two years older than the previous generation were. Their parents played outside unsupervised by the age of nine – today’s children don’t get there until age 11, according to the study. One expert said the findings showed that British children had been subject to “a gradual, creeping lockdown over at least a generation”.
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