NT jockey Brendan Sweeney remains in an induced coma following a horrific fall at Fanny Bay racecourse in Darwin on Saturday. A three horse fall in the second
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Trending: The Conscious Equestrian has partnered with Riders Minds. Credit: Lottie-Elizabeth Photography
Newly launched equestrian wellness company The Conscious Equestrian has announced an affiliation with Riders Minds.
Riders Minds is an online resource, dedicated to supporting and improving the mental health and wellbeing of everyone in the equestrian industry, and also provides a free, confidential, 24-hour helpline.
The new affiliation means five percent of all sales made by The Conscious Equestrian will be donated to Riders Minds.
“The entire team at The Conscious Equestrian is delighted to be able to give back to the equestrian community, in the form of regular donations to Riders Minds,” said Ali Dane, director at The Conscious Equestrian.
British horse racing’s leading authorities have made a commitment to diversity and inclusion so the sport continues to ‘grow and thrive in the future’.
A PILOT scheme of raceday saliva tests for jockeys to detect cocaine and other banned substances is now under way.
The joint venture, developed by the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) and the Professional Jockeys Association, began this week, with tests taken at Kempton on Monday and Lingfield on Tuesday.
Announced in February on the same day as jockey Philip Prince received a six-month suspension following a positive cocaine test, the intention is that oral swabs will be able to quickly indicate the presence of any banned substance, above the existing thresholds, in a rider’s system.
Under the pilot, any jockey who does not test negative would be stood down from riding for the day, with racing set to become the first major sport in Britain to utilise on-the-day screening for banned substances through oral swabs, should the pilot prove successful.
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.