Jockey died ‘doing what he loved best’

HUNDREDS of mourners attending the funeral of a promising teenage jockey who suffered a fatal fall were urged to try and draw comfort from the fact that he died doing what he loved best.

Jack Tyner, 19, from Inishannon, Co. Cork, passed away earlier this week at Cork University Hospital, after sustaining severe head injuries in a point-to-point fall over a week ago in Dungarvan, Co. Waterford.

After riding a winner in the first race, his mount Dusmagic took a heavy tumble at the first fence in the next.