FIRST THOUGHTS: Mud-spattered story of a talented horseman

IT can’t be pleasant, reading your own obituary, but jockey Declan Murphy’s injuries were so severe after falling at Haydock Park in 1994 that the Racing Post subsequently led with the headline ‘Declan Murphy Dies After Horror Fall’.

FIRST THOUGHTS: Mud-spattered story of a talented horseman

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