Irish jockey still in hospital after neck injury

UK March 15, 2013

Irish jockey still in hospital after neck injury

Photo: AP Jockey JT McNamara. McNamara was airlifted to hospital after being seriously injured in a fall at the Cheltenham Festival on Thursday March 14, 2013,. The amateur rider came off Galaxy Rock following a fall at the first fence in the Fulke Walwyn Kim Muir Chase, the next-to-last race of the festival's third day. He was immediately treated by medical staff and taken away in an air ambulance.

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CHELTENHAM, England (AP) — A doctor says Irish jockey JT McNamara fractured two vertebrae in his neck after falling from his horse at the Cheltenham Festival.

The 37-year-old McNamara was placed in a medically induced coma and airlifted to hospital after coming off Galaxy Rock in a race on Thursday. Dr. Adrian McGoldrick, senior medical officer of the Irish Turf Club, says in a statement released Friday that McNamara "is currently in theater" at hospital where he has been joined by his wife, Caroline.

McGoldrick says there will be no update on McNamara's condition until Saturday.

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