Jockey Henry Brooke will not be featuring in the Aintree meeting – Horse Racing Update
Jockey Henry Brooke will not be featuring in two events of the Aintree meeting on Saturday, due to a broken right wrist he sustained from a fall a day earlier.
It was planned that Brooke will be on board two champion race-horses, Red Merlin and Ebanour. These two colts train under the care of the famed trainer Donald McCain. In an undesirable accident during the Handicap Hurdle, the jockey suffered a fall on the
track. This race was run over a distance of three miles and one and a half furlongs. Brooke was riding the colt Son Of Flicka in this race.
When the trainer McCain was approached by the correspondents regarding the injured jockey and his plan for the two race-horses, he was reported as saying, “He seems to have broken his right wrist but beyond that I don’t know much. He’s gone home with his
parents and won’t be riding today.”
Later on, it was revealed that Brooke not only broke his wrist, but also chipped his elbow and dislocated his shoulder after the unfortunate fall at the Aintree racecourse.
On the other hand, another jockey Harry Haynes was also taken for medical treatment on Friday after he fell off Bible Lord while riding him in the John Smith’s Topham Chase.
Saturday is the last day of the three day event that is going on at the Aintree race-course. The John Smith’s Grand National meeting is the second prestigious event of the season after the Cheltenham Festival that took place last month at the ever famous
Cheltenham race-course.
The fans of the sport and all those involved in the horse-racing business are provided with a great deal of quality racing and in every event, as they get to see the clash of some of the best race-horses of the country. The racing is fiercely contested,
as some of the top horses take place in the events. Moreover, these race-horses are being ridden by the champion jockeys and are being saddled by some of the greatest trainers of the country.
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