Poignant tribute to young jockey

The most celebrated colours in National Hunt racing were yesterday worn in a poignant tribute to a young jockey who died last Friday at the racing establishment in Co Limerick where he was an apprentice.

Ryan Cusack, who would have turned 18 tomorrow , died instantly when he fell from a tractor and trailer at the Howardstown base of trainer Enda Bolger when clearing storm damaged trees.

Fifteen-year-old John O’Donoghue, wearing the green and gold racing silks of JP McManus, led the funeral cortege on horseback to Abington cemetery Murroe.