PLANS are afoot to move jockey Francis Lawlor to a hospital nearer his family as he continues to make slow progress following the injuries he sustained in a fall at Down Royal on May 28.

Plans are afoot to move Irish jockey Francis Lawlor to a hospital nearer his family as he continues to make slow progress following the injuries he sustained in a fall at Down Royal on May 28.

Francis Lawlor was taken to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast with serious head injuries following a fall at Down Royal this evening.