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British Horseracing Authority (BHA) has announced that it will join other sporting organisations in this weekend’s social media boycott to highlight awareness of online racism and abuse.
Horse racing will join the boycott from 9pm today (30 April), following a commemoration for Lorma Brooke, the amateur jockey who passed away of injuries from a racing accident this month, and will conclude on 3 May at 11.59pm.
The BHA’s announcement takes on extra significance due to two flat racing ‘Classics’ also taking place this weekend at Newmarket on Saturday and Sunday.
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Equestrian sport’s governing bodies are uniting with the football and wider sporting communities in a social media boycott in support of ending online abuse and hate.
British Equestrian (BEF) is one of those that have pledged not to post on social media between 3pm today (Friday, 30 April) and 11.59pm on Monday (3 May).
“Equestrianism will not tolerate discrimination or abuse in any form, and we call on social media providers to make their users fully accountable for their actions and eradicate online abuse from their platforms,” said the BEF in a statement.
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.
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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.